BBC Breakfast’s Carol Kirkwood shrieked after being bitten by the Queen’s ‘special’ ponies.
The 60-year-old got to meet two of the Queen’s Shetland ponies in Scotland for a programme called The Day I Met the Queen which aired on Saturday.
The BBC show revealed how The Queen had loved the animals since she was four when her grandfather King George V bought her a Shetland pony called Peggy.
Carol met the Queen’s Pony Master who was feeding two of her black ponies, in Balmoral, and she said: “Oh, they are gorgeous wee ponies. What are their names?”
He revealed how one was Lance Corporal Cruachan IV and the other was called Lance Corporal Cruachan III, who was retired from royal duties.
He added: “Every time she is in Scotland she likes to see them and she likes to spend a wee bit of time with them, especially Lance Corporal Cruachan III who is a wee special friend.”
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Carol asked why that pony was so special and the Pony Master revealed during a 1996 he “had a wee nip at her”.
He explained: “It wasn’t prominently at her – she had a posy of flowers that she had received from families and he thought it was breakfast.
“So he took Her Majesty’s glove off so he got into a wee bit of trouble for that.”
Carol was soon in the same boat though, after the cheeky pony bit her leg soon after she gave him a carrot.
She cried out and said: “Ow, You little rascal. He just bit me! You little scallywag.”
She was warned her leg would “sting for a bit” following the nip, but ever the professional, Carol soldiered on and continued the interview.
