Dennis Wall, the stick maker who created the stick for His Majesty, explained that it was in early April that an Army representative contacted him to ask him to send three of his best sticks for the queen to choose as a gift.
Mr Wall, who has previously made sticks for the royal family, including the Prince of Wales, told The Telegraph that the army had collected 10 sticks to take to Buckingham Palace so that the queen could choose between a variety.
He put up three sticks, two of which were the first place winners of the Chatsworth program. One stick was cut and the other was simple of a rarer Jacob sheep breed. However, the queen opted for the stick that had never won any show.
The Queen told the Army representative she wanted a couple of modifications, which she completed “a few weeks ago”.
These included making the stick an inch shorter and removing the standard common ferrule (the end that touches the ground) and replacing it with a horn ferrule like the top of the mast.
The ferrule was made from the local Herdwick sheep horn.
It was the Army’s desire to add an engraved necklace to put on the stick to prepare for this weekend’s platinum jubilee celebrations.
Wall said he saw the celebrations on television and felt that the queen “looked very comfortable there and that her choice was right.”
“She seemed so natural with that. She looked calm. It seemed like it was made for her,” she said.
Wall added that he had been “very excited” to have been asked to make the queen’s staff and that he had been totally “unexpected”.