Two-year-old Prince George, the son of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was photographed on 22 April 2016 sitting on a hand-made rocking horse. The rocking horse was a gift to Prince George from the People of America in 2013 when he was born on 22 July.
The artisanal rocking
horse has the presidential seal imprinted on the saddle. The White House (the
State Department) contacted rocking horse maker, Jackie Wilson, to create
George’s rocking horse. It is a glider design (safety stand) with an
English-style saddle. The glider is actually an American patent. P.W. Marqua of
Cincinnati, Ohio, invented it in 1880, but it is commonly known as the Wilson
glider.
In the royal family
there is a stable of rocking horses owned by various members of the family.
Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, Princess Margaret, had rocking horses when
they were children, including the one below, which was exhibited at Buckingham Palace in 2014.
Twin brothers, Marc and Tony Stevenson, established a
rocking horse business in England in 1982 in Kent. The Queen owns five
Stevenson rocking horses. The Stevenson models were presented to the Queen for
her Golden and Diamond Jubilees (photographed below).
President of the
United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama were visiting
England on 21-23 April 2016 to commemorate the 90th birthday of the Queen of
England, Queen Elizabeth II, on 21 April. The Obamas also met Prince William,
Catherine, and George, while Charlotte – their daughter – was asleep. Prince George
was photographed on his birthday present, the rocking horse.
MARTINA NICOLLS is the author of:-
The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends
(2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan
Curse (2009).
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