Thursday, Queen Elizabeth II opened, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, visited a new veterinary school in Guildford, Surrey in southern England. And then, surprise! Sovereign recognised Mary Tudor ... one of her old mares.

Wearing a turquoise blue coat with an original zigzag cutout on the front, on which she had pinned a brooch in the shape of flower and wearing a hat exactly the same tone quilted fabric flowers, Elizabeth II was all smile this October 15 in Guildford. Alongside her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, they inaugurated the new veterinary school of the University of Surrey took the opportunity to take a short tour of the premises.

During their tour, The royal couple past a room where students were training on the horse dummy and saw another living dog, walking on a treadmill for a demonstration of how technology can help animals.

Fascinated since her childhood by horses, Elizabeth did not fail to go to the stables. And to her great joy, she found one of her old mares. Called Mary Tudor, it lived 16 years in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace, before heading sink quiet days in a retirement home for horses.