Ever since footage from Royal Ascot of a bare-chested man squaring up to another race-goer went viral, everyone's been asking the same question.

What on earth could have provoked such a heated fracas? And were the unsavoury scenes caught on camera on Thursday - Ladies' Day, attended by The Queen , no less - really necessary?

Well the answer is every bit as pathetic as you'd expect - it turns out the whole hoo-hah was over... a chair. Yup. That's it.

"Let's finish this, just me and you!" the topless man bellows as he confronts his apparent adversary, a sharp-suited fellow race-goer.

The Mirror reports David Eves got into a scuffle with two men, Lee Marriott and Michael Darcy, both from Essex, in the Queen Anne enclosure.

Mr Eves attended the event with his wife Sally-Ann but was ejected from the course after security and other race-goers stepped in to diffuse the situation.

In the clip, Mr Eves appears to stumble over Mr Darcy's leg as Mr Marriott moves away: "Some guys started on us. I sat on someone else's chair," Mr Eves told The Sun .

The video was posted by @DDI_14 on Twitter with the caption: “GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.”

But international company PVM Oil came out in support of its workers - Mr Marriott and Mr Darcy - stating both employees were trying to break up a fight.

A firm spokesman told MailOnline : "Our guys were never in the wrong. Our two guys were there [in the film] trying to break up the fight.

"Everyone who was involved in the fight was spoken to afterwards and those who took part in the fight were ejected from the racecourse. Our guys were not ejected.

"They were only being Good Samaritans, trying to break up the fight."

The scuffle played out as The Queen attended Royal Ascot on Thursday

It's far from the first fisticuffs at Royal Scot though. In 2011, a mass fight broke out on Ladies' Day with top-hatted race-goers brandishing £98 Laurent Perrier bottles as weapons.

One man was seen being held in a headlock and members of a military band had to step in to stop the fight. No arrests were made at the time.

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