Waking Queen Elizabeth up unexpectedly at two or three in the morning seems like a terrifying prospect for a royal page, but according to royal biographer Gyles Brandreth, she insisted on it for one special reason.
The late Queen was a devoted horsewoman throughout her life, and her longtime groom at the Royal Mews, Terry Pendry, told Brandreth that she was so involved in breeding horses that she insisted on watching them being born, no matter what hour of the night it was.
