Sophie Wessex joins Edward at Royal Windsor Horse Show

Prince Edward and sophie wessex attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show on Thursday morning to support Lady Louise Windsor. The appearance brought the couple to the event they help lead, with Sophie serving as vice president and Edward as president.

Windsor Castle grounds

The show takes place close to Windsor Castle and uses the residence’s private grounds for show-jumping, dressage and carriage driving. Queen Elizabeth II attended nearly every year from the show’s founding in 1943 until her death in 2022, making the event a long-running royal fixture rather than a one-off appearance.

This year’s show included a display of the 1966 Land Rover Series IIA that Queen Elizabeth II drove to the event in her younger years. Princess Anne also joined Edward and Sophie at the show, adding to the family turnout on Thursday morning.

Lady Louise Windsor

Sources told Vanity Fair that Sophie and Edward were planning to attend all four days of the show to support their daughter, Lady Louise Windsor. She served as an organizer for this year’s event and will compete in a carriage-driving competition on Saturday.

Lady Louise learned carriage driving from her grandfather, Prince Philip, when she was around 10 or 11. That detail ties her role at the show directly to the same discipline that has long defined part of the event’s royal identity.

Royal family at the arena

Images from the event also showed King Charles III waving as he entered the Castle arena. Princess Anne watched the RoR Tattersalls Thoroughbred Ridden Show series qualifier, which Katie Jerram Hunnable won riding First Receiver, a horse owned by the King.

For readers following the family’s public appearances, the key detail is the schedule around Lady Louise: the couple were there on Thursday morning, they planned to remain present across all four days, and her carriage-driving run comes on Saturday.