Osipi
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I think perhaps that as prestigious as Royal Ascot is and being invited to sit in the Royal Ascot box is, to sponsor the event is even as prestigious and an honor. I really doubt that Ascot is hurting for sponsors for Royal Ascot Week.
I am tending to believe there was a snafu or a misunderstanding when it came to the carriage procession and riding with HM. The Emir of Qatar had ridden with HM the day previously and perhaps that's where it was assumed that Sheikha Amna bint Mohammed Al-Thani and her son would ride the next day. I think with the differences in languages, it may have been a misunderstanding of two simple words; with and in. They were to ride IN the Queen's carriage procession and not WITH the Queen in the carriage procession.
Regardless, I cannot believe that any of the British Royal Family or Lady Elizabeth Anson would ever dream of deliberately insulting the Qatari royal family.
I am tending to believe there was a snafu or a misunderstanding when it came to the carriage procession and riding with HM. The Emir of Qatar had ridden with HM the day previously and perhaps that's where it was assumed that Sheikha Amna bint Mohammed Al-Thani and her son would ride the next day. I think with the differences in languages, it may have been a misunderstanding of two simple words; with and in. They were to ride IN the Queen's carriage procession and not WITH the Queen in the carriage procession.
Regardless, I cannot believe that any of the British Royal Family or Lady Elizabeth Anson would ever dream of deliberately insulting the Qatari royal family.