As Alan Titchmarsh discovers, it’s only too easy to bump into the Queen herself while wandering around the grounds of Windsor Castle during the week of the Royal Windsor Horse Show. We learn the stories of the men and women who serve Crown and Country and perform each night at the spectacular Royal Tattoo. Prince Edward, describes visiting our troops in Afghanistan “I can actually look them in the eye and say, ‘I know where you were and the conditions that you were serving from’”. Alan boards a brand new naval destroyer and risks being run over by a one-and-a-half ton gun carriage when he rides with the Army’s King’s Troop.
