Queen hosts reception for British equestrian teams

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The Queen hosted a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the success of British equestrian teams at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics. Her Majesty met medal-winning athletes, support staff, and Paralympians who secured one silver and six bronze medals. BEF CEO Jim Eyre presented the Queen with a commemorative photo book, honouring the team’s achievements. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Hello, can I introduce Helen who is our performance director?

00:20Hello Helen, nice to meet you.

00:21Very nice to meet you.

00:22And Sophie who does the operations and everything, makes it all happen.

00:27Thank you very much for having us.

00:29I hope so.

00:30I'm delighted to see you Helen.

00:31Yes I do.

00:32Fantastic.

00:33So you're here, you're not?

00:34I'm here, yeah, no, no, I'm not.

00:37I'm not doing any riding of children, no.

00:39I've got my family.

00:40I've got something to give to you because my daughter was very jealous that we were coming.

00:44So she's drawn you a picture.

00:46You don't know what I mean to that.

00:48She says, to Queen Camilla, she would like to be a princess.

00:52Do you want to share a picture of this?

01:02Yes, they put no pressure on us at all, it was so phenomenal.

01:07It was some very positive pressure, but yeah, we did an incredibly good job.

01:15Well, hand back over to these superstars, so we were ok.

01:21It's a fun poster.

01:23It's a team from...

01:25Yes, I do.

01:27It's a team from the public service.

01:29Other than that,

01:31it's just a team.

01:33It's a team.

01:35Thank you so much.

01:37Thank you so much.

01:39Well, it's quite nice.

01:41It's a good thing that we've got

01:43something like this.

02:27Nice to meet you.

02:29Hello. I'm very well, thank you.

02:31And you?

02:33I am incharge of portals

02:35and loads of scrap mail

02:37and...

02:39Who are you?

02:41My dog.

02:43Yeah, I'm a great photographer. Yeah, for Laura Pollack, one of the MF writers.

02:50So is she a professional photographer?

02:54No.

02:55No?

02:56No.

02:57How long have you started being a photographer?

02:59How long have you been a photographer?

03:0114 years.

03:0214 years?

03:03Erm, 7 years.

03:057 years?

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03:07Do you know what you're going to write?

03:09Yeah.

03:10You're going to write about my wife, James Morris.

03:12Oh, are you?

03:13Yeah.

03:14She's a professional.

03:15Oh, is she?

03:16Yeah.

03:17She's an artist.

03:18Oh, okay.

03:19And to be honest, I never really knew what she was going to be talking about.

03:21I have a few, and I can't actually count them at the moment, but we do a bit of reading

03:25as well, which I really, really love.

03:27Oh, wow.

03:28Yes.

03:29So I'm going to write about James Morris.

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06:01There we go.

06:02So 2024 was an incredible year.

06:03It pains me to say how well the French did.

06:04Paris was truly exceptional.

06:06For us in Wisconsin and the world class, it was a roller coaster year.

06:13And there were the highs and there were the lows.

06:16And that our teams were able to perform so extraordinarily well and every ride that'd

06:23back with a medal is testament to the talent that we have within this country. It's not

06:29just about the talent, it's the systems and it's the people, the people that are here

06:36that really make the riders and the horses and the competition work so well. So thank you and

06:43I can't name all of you but you know from the grooms, from the owners without whom we just

06:50wouldn't be here, to the farriers, the saddlers, the physios, nutritionists, everyone who plays

06:56their magical part, the ops teams and again to the disciplines that create that platform,

07:01that structure that allows our athletes just to compete on the world stage. Thank you. It's a team

07:08within a team and it's a family. Thank you for everything you do. Your Majesty we have a copy

07:14of our photo book from the Games. It's got all the gory snapshots, the tears, the thrills

07:21and the medals and we'd love to give you that. Oh thank you very much.

07:32Can I just reiterate exactly what Jim said that I'm so proud to be your patron and

07:41it made us all feel very proud to be British. I'm sorry I wasn't there but I was watching

07:48very keenly every bit of it on the television and it really did bring tears to the eyes. So

07:55thank you the whole team for everything you do and let's keep British the best.

08:01So thank you very much indeed and thank you for coming today.

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