PRINCESS MARY THROWN.
ESCAPE WITHOUT INJURY. It was revealed that Princess Mary, -while hunting in the Selby country with the Bramham Moore Hunt, met with an accident which, but for the soft ground, might have been extremely serious. Her horse fell in some swampy ground in Gateforth Wood, and she was thrown some distance. “It was lucky for the Princess that the ground was spongy, because if it a had been hard the fall would certainly have injured her,” said Mr S. Wormald, of Cawood Castle. “Hounds were at the far side of the •Gateforth Wood, when a fax was holloed away. There was only Princess Mary, myself and another mounted
| follower. The Princess at once enterj ed the wood to go through to join the j running field, but in crossing some J boggy ground her horse suddenb" floundered and went clean over on its side. “Luckily the horse rolled on the | side away from the Princess, who was thrown clear some distance away. She rolled in the path of my horse, and I had some difficulty in avoiding her. The other follower and I quickly dismounted and assisted the Princess to her feet. She had escapee injury owing to the soft nature of the ground. We helped her to wipe some of the mud off her habit and her hunter, and then she pluckily re- 3 mounted and rode away.” !
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 283, 11 April 1929, Page 3
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