Queen's Granddaughter Zara to Bear Olympic Torch Tomorrow

Olympic torch meets royalty

Team Samsung ambassador Zara Phillips with (left to right) Caitriana Durack, Milly Dare, Hayden Skeats and Harry Gibson from Chilton Foilat Primary School in Hungerford as she prepares to take part in the Olympic Torch Relay tomorrow. (David Parry,PA Wire / Press Association)

Zara Phillips, the Queen's granddaughter, will tomorrow carry the Olympic torch on horseback down the finishing straight of Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire.

The 31-year-old will be riding her horse, Toytown, and will use the torch to light a cauldron at the racecourse. Zara held the torch briefly today when she met teenage torchbearers today in the town of Hungerford, as the flame was carried in the west of the country.

The Olympic torch arrived in the UK on 18 May, to a welcoming party which included David Beckham. The torch is making good preogress around the country - despite having already gone out once.