This book is not about me; this book is about some very special working horses. Horses with whom it has been my privilege to have served alongside during my times in the Household Cavalry and the Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch, in a career spanning nigh on forty years. The horses I speak of have a few things in common; they are brave, noble and proud, and they wear the Royal Crown close to their heart; they are both servant and warrior they are…   ‘Horses of the Crown’