Queen Elizabeth II was only ever spotted running in public on two occasions, or so Craig Brown alleges in his biography of the late monarch A Voyage Around the Queen. The first was in 1954 when her horse Aureole won at Ascot; the second, nearly four decades later in 1991, when she was rushing to catch the end of the Epsom Derby (won by a horse named Generous). With these two exceptions, the Queen was otherwise not inclined to bouts of such boorish and ill-disciplined behaviour.
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