The Princess was young but already a powerful and skilled rider. She had the stamina of a trained athlete and the skills of a courtesan twice her age, the strength and the ability to ride for many hours, and would quickly exhaust any partner she was mounted on.
A team of men had to be kept ready so that she could stay in the saddle until she was ready to stop. The Princess was known to complain that her mounts were ‘feeble’ and as soon as she had worn one out, would demand that a replacement was provided. And you would not want to be the servant who caused her to have to wait for her new mount to be put under her.