Windsor, Berkshire - Copper Horse (Long Walk) - postcard Virginia Water pmk 1905

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• Picture / Image:  The Copper Horse [statue of George III at the end of the Long Walk from the Castle], Windsor Park, [Berkshire - but it's only a few hundred yards from the border with Surrey]
• Publisher: none stated
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Edward VII half d blue-green (the earlier shade)
• Postmark(s): Virginia Water duplex 1905 [Surrey]
• Sent to:  Miss Crittenden, Abergeldie, Homersham Road, Kingston Hill
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Copper Horse is a statue marking the end of the Long Walk at Snow Hill in Windsor Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. It was scuplted by Sir Richard Westmacott and was erected in October 1831.

The walk begins at the George IV Gateway at Windsor Castle. The Copper Horse is a statue of George III on horseback, and is said to represent George as an emperor in the Roman tradition riding without stirrups, along the lines of the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.

The statue was commissioned by George's son, George IV, and bears an ironic inscription: the best of fathers in Latin. Like so many father–son relationships in the Hanoverian family, however, George III and George IV were known to have despised one another.