Royal You Should Know About: Princess Anne

Official Title: Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal

Place in Order of Precedence: 14th

Romantic History: Currently married to Sir Timothy Laurence, first husband was Captain Mark Phillips

Children: Peter Philips (going through divorce to wife Autumn), Zara Philips (Married former rugby player Mike Tindall)

Key Causes/Patronages:

• Save the Children 

  • President since 1970

  • She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize due to her work with them

• Admiral and Chief Commandant of Women in the Royal Navy. 

• She has created several charities including The Princess Royal's Trust for Carers (now Carers Trust), Transaid and Riders for Health.

• A member of the International Olympic Committee

• Involved with more than 300 additional charities, organisations and military regiments in the UK and overseas

Why You Want to Have Tea with Her:

• Princess Anne is the The Queen’s only daughter and her second-born child. Known as the “hardest working royal” she has regularly outpaced every other member of the family in terms of the number of engagements she does. An avid horsewoman, she was an Olympic equestrian in the 1976 games in Montreal, which I love as a shared passion with both The Queen, who regularly rides and has raised many championship horses, and her own daughter Zara, who won a Silver Medal at the London Olympics, which Anne presented to her. As a young woman, she also survived an attempted KIDNAPPING, where she was famously polite to the kidnappers until they ripped her dress. Fashion-wise, Princess Anne is famous within the royal fandom for re-wearing looks over decades - an icon of classic style. Finally, I think we can all agree that The Princess Royal is the best title, right?!

Essential read: Vanity Fair recently wrote an amazing profile on her that is the cover story for the May 2020 issue!