THE QUEEN AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES

She's opened them twice, watched her daughter and granddaughter compete for Team GB and even leapt into the stadium with James Bond - when it comes to the Olympics it's fair to say the Queen has embraced every experience.

A young Princess Elizabeth, with her new husband Philip, was an enthusiastic fan when the Games came to London in 1948, watching her father George VI declare them open at Wembley Stadium.

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Her lifelong passion for horses was underlined when she planned a holiday to Stockholm in 1956, which hosted the equestrian events for the Games in Melbourne due to Australian quarantine laws.

Staying on the Royal Yacht, she watched Francis Weldon, Arthur Rook and Bertie Hill claim team eventing gold.

Two decades later she timed a tour of North America to coincide with the Montreal Games, where daughter Princess Anne became the first member of the British royal family to compete for Great Britain, watched by brothers Charles, Andrew and Edward.