Royal special guest to attend this year's Burghley Horse Trials
Visitors to the showjumping phase at this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials will see HRH The Princess Royal in attendance.
She will be at the event, in Stamford, on Sunday, in her role as President of World Horse Welfare, which is the Lincolnshire CCI5* event’s supported charity for 2026, and as President of the British Eventing Support Trust.
Her Royal Highness - who won the European Championships at Burghley in 1971 - will present the prizes to the winners of Burghley 2026 after the concluding showjumping phase.
The royal prize-giving will provide a fitting climax to a true ‘Super Sunday’ celebrating world-class sport.
The enthusiastic crowds packed around Burghley’s Main Arena will have an opportunity to salute Britain’s gold medal-winning squad from the recent FEI World Eventing Championships in Aachen, Germany.
And there is bound to be plenty of emotion as Burghley pays tribute to one of the greatest event horses of recent times, dual Burghley champion Ballaghmor Class, as he canters round the Main Arena for a final time under Oliver Townend.
Burghley’s Event Director Martyn Johnson said: “We are very honoured that HRH The Princess Royal is attending Burghley again this year.
"As a former winner of Burghley, and a British gold medallist herself, it is highly appropriate that Her Royal Highness will play a role on a day which celebrates so much British equestrian sporting achievement.”
Visitors to the event, which starts today (Thursday) will be able to visit hundreds of shops and attractions away from the equestrian action.
Go to www.burghley-horse.co.uk to buy tickets.