There was a right royal turn-out at this year's Three Counties Show with mother and son entries from the Queen and Prince Charles.

Traditional brown eggs laid by Prince Charles' chickens were on display in the poultry tent and one of the Queen's beautiful Haflinger horses was entered in the equestrian section.

The Prince submitted an assortment of Wells Summer brown speckled eggs from the royal estate at Highgrove in Gloucestershire.

The royal entries were seen as an unofficial seal of approval for the show.

Neither of the prestigious royal entries won prizes.

Poultry judge Chris Parker said standards had been exceptionally high this year.

"The eggs are numbered, not named, so you don't know whose eggs are whose when you're judging," he said.

He said the judges looked for freshness, size, shape and colour and that uniform shape was particularly impor- tant.