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In 2020, Chandler’s daughter Shelby, 15, already an equestrienne who practiced English jumping, began volunteering at Toni’s Ponies as a break from virtual schooling.

Her childhood survival strategy — hard work and invisibility — begins to fray when she is befriended by June Fisk, a competitive equestrienne who is the lesbian daughter of a prominent Malibu plastic surgeon and twin of the arrogant, homophobic Wade.

It was madness to move so far from the city, friends insisted, but he was an outdoorsman and his bride-to-be an avid equestrienne, and Shaker Heights offered three bridle paths, streams for fishing, plenty of fresh air.

The princess in question is Haya bint al Hussein, 45, half-sister to the king of Jordan, an Oxford-educated equestrienne with Olympic credentials who is a glossy fixture on the circuit of iconic British society events like the Royal Ascot.

An avid equestrienne for most of her life, the young woman had gritted her teeth through sprained wrists and ankles, horse-trodden feet and, last year, a fracture.