Queen Camilla Scores Ownership Of Queen Elizabeth’s Beloved Racehorses

Camilla, Queen Consort has officially become a joint owner of Queen Elizabeth II’s racehorses, according to the Racing Post. The first of the former queen’s horses to race under the name of King Charles III was in September 2022. The first win for the king with one of the late queen’s horses came shortly after.  Now the horses will race for both Charles and Camilla. There had been fears the king was potentially shutting down his mother’s operation when he sold 14 horses at auction in October 2022. However, a spokesperson for the auction house worked to allay fears by saying it was normal to sell horses, “The Queen had brood mares of her own, she would breed them and sell them. You can’t keep them all,” via BBC.

This isn’t Charles and Camilla’s first time owning horses together, and of the two of them, per the Daily Mail, Camilla is the one more interested in horse racing. So her becoming co-owner makes sense. After the queen’s death, Camilla attended QIPCO British Champion’s Day at Ascot Racecourse; she gave the trophy to the winner of the Queen Elizabeth II stakes in October 2022. With this announcement, the late queen’s legacy of love for horses carried on to the next generation.