Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 8 September, there was inevitably an inkling that Goodwood’s Revival Meeting would not take place as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland went into a period of national mourning. As difficult as it would have been to countenance cancellation for force majeure – the sheer magnitude of logistics behind such a herculean undertaking would never have allowed postponement to an adjacent weekend – the vast majority of people affected would have understood.
