Clare Balding recalls embarrassing mishap with the Queen which raised royal eyebrows

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the Queen, had been reminiscing over past moments spent with Her Majesty during an episode of This Morning.The BBC Sport presenter cringed with embarrassment after admitting she'd narrowly avoided hitting the Queen with her sausage at breakfast time.Viewers looked on in astonishment as she confessed: "I was trying to cut my sausage long ways and it's very slippery when you hold it like that."It could shoot and it did.

It shot out towards the Queen!"She added that the surprised royal matriarch had merely "raised an eyebrow" as the food went flying past."As a monarch, it helps that she has a sense of humour," Clare exclaimed, going on to explain that the Queen had visited her home on numerous occasions when she was growing up.Her father Ian, her grandfather Peter Hasting-Bass, and her uncle, who is the 17th Earl of Huntingdon, had all served as trainers for the Queen's troupe of horses.Her Majesty had a passion for horse riding, even enjoying the pastime in her latter years, and she had a collection of race horses, so Clare's relatives played an important part in her life.Once a year, she would come to Clare's family home to see the horses, but the star told how she wasn't always informed by her father so she could be well-prepared for the visit."Sometimes he’d forget to tell us that The Queen was coming," she smiled wryly in memory of the moments.The BBC Sport host added: "She loved coming to the stables because it was the one place that didn't smell of fresh paint, it smelt of horses, life carries on."The Queen's love of horses began at age four, when her father King George gifted her with a pony.Prior to her chat on ITV's This Morning yesterday, Clare also discussed the Queen's equestrian passion during an interview.