I read on 'Windsor - Information.co.uk' in 'Langton Houses' Guide to Walks in Windsor, that the designer of the Copper Horse committed suicide
after realising he had left the stirrups off the King's horse.....I remember reading on this forum 'somewhere' that this is, in fact, not
true.......I've left a brief message on the blog site saying that I think their information is incorrect - so, am I right, or have I got it wrong?. Fingers
crossed on this one!!
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Designer of The Copper Horse.
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 Pat Larkin |
Designer of The Copper Horse. |
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Posts: 177 (05/30/08 06:12:58) |
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Posts: 1212 (05/30/08 06:49:35) |
You are absolutely right. Westmacott died peacefully in his sleep thirty years later in 1856! Copper Horse. I am afraid that my entry about the Copper Horse is rather
minimal but does attempt to lay that myth. One day I will expand it!
Apparently the untruth was repeated during the BBC coverage of the Wessex's Wedding a few years back which made my mother choke on her tea... Surely the BBC would never make such a mistake... Oh, yes, they could, and did! |
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Posts: 178 (05/31/08 01:02:37) |
Thankyou. Sometimes I read information, then, a few weeks later, read somewhere else a totally different story of the same 'event'......the BBC should
really check and double-check.
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Posts: 35 (06/10/08 14:05:53) |
Here we go again! That hoary old myth about the stirrups (or lack of them)
I can't believe it's still running. Go and look at it carefully, what do you see? The rider is seated on a BLANKET not a saddle, so can any one tell me how to attach stirrups to a blanket He wasn't such a fool after all and it saved him from committing suicide |
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Pat Larkin |
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Posts: 190 (06/11/08 01:03:47) |
Perhaps Mayor of Bexley might like to visit 'Windsor - Information.co.uk' and let them know what he's just told us! At least that might finally lay to rest the myth, and, yes, we will take a closer look next time we visit, but that will have to wait 'til petrol prices return to something like 'normal'.....on t.v. this morning they told us 'not to panic buy', but when we drove past a couple of garages earlier on, there were long queues... |
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