Princess Anne

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What a woman, she is 72 years old !! I can’t believe how amazing she has been in the last few days.

I always knew she was the most hardworking royal , but this week she has been outstanding.

The photo was from a Vogue shoot when she was 23. I'm sure there were techniques used to enhance the photos as there would be for most magazine images of the time. However it does still look like her, as she looked in the early 70s. There are plenty of candid press photos that show she was indeed an attractive woman.

For those interested and enjoying the thread in the spirit intended there are quite a few pictures of Anne here www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/royal-portraits-in-vogue/amp

Oh my !
I wondered why they had made Diana grey haired in that first photo in the Vogue article you linked to @JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon, was it to see what she would look like aged up ?
Then I realised it was 1981 portrait by Snowden.
😮🙄

I think so too. I suspect she is very measured and sensible in her responses and will be a good sounding board for him.

That picture of her is not a true likeness. Let's face it, she was never a beauty. Not that it matters

A posted professional portrait is a bit like a wedding photograph, an idealised view. I think there are enough pictures of her on record that show exactly how she looked when she was in her teens and twenties, maybe look at a few of them before you make your snide “not that it matters” judgements.

I maybe be in the minority here but I don't like her. All that "she doesn't suffer fools gladly" and she's "hard working". I always wonder who these "fools" are, maybe people just trying to earn a living and unlike her doesn't get it handed on a plate. As for hard working? All the "work" is done by others, she keeps busy with engagements, it isn't work as such.
As I said above she is very good with ordinary people. She is lovely to the carers who her charity supports, more than happy to pose for selfies etc It's the journalists she doesnt have time for!

Another Anne fan here. I met her a few years ago when she opened a police building in Bristol. It was her 2nd of 3 engagements of the day and she was wonderfully briefed and interested (and spent a lot of time with the mounted police and their horses).

I have a lot of time for her.

But why when she hasn’t served in the military?

women werent allowed to 50 yrs ago.

A lot of the titles are honorary. But women have only been allowed to serve in the last few years. Didnt the Duchess of cambridge get the Col-in Chief of the Grenadier Guards (Andrews old role)?

My mum was in the women’s airforce in the Second World War!!

That isn't entirely true - they weren't allowed into combat.

@MissyB1 there were those roles but women at sea or front line roles werent permitted. Charles/Andrew were naval officers and could serve in front line roles

Women have been able to serve in the army since 1938 and combat roles since 2018. The WRNS was formed in 1917 and the WRAF in 1918.

Does amuse me all this 'women didn't do this/couldn't do this 50 years ago' when there are lots of us around who actually were doing it.

The point is Princess Anne could have been in the military if she had wanted to be. All this “Women couldn’t join the military back then” is bollocks!

Amazing then that her mother did in the ATS, forerunner to the Women's Royal Army Corps I think.

I like her but she's like many women i know - getting on with things that need to be done, looking after family, working hard and spinning half a dozen other plates at the same time.

The invisible army keeping society meshed.

Colonel-in-Chief is a purely ceremonial role/rank.
Norway even appointed a penguin as C-i-C.

I actually like Princess Anne. She has hardly left her mother's side since she passed.
I have always thought that she just got on with stuff, and didn't really bother with all the fripperies of the Royal Family apart from what was her duty.

I guess Anne is best placed to be by her mother's side - Charles is a bit busy, Edward has children and no one wants Andrew to be seen anywhere.

I’ve met her a few times and she’s absolutely lovely, made conversation very easy.

I do think she’s been underrated as a royal but prefers it that way.

Zara is also very similar (and equally as lovely) Princess Anne absolutely dotes on her grandchildren.

I see Mike & Zara a lot where I live and have bumped into them at swimming a fair few times.

Dreadful isn't it.

Maybe he didn't like her much?

Though non of the pictures of Diana in that article are particularly lovely.

I met her once many years ago and she was lovely. She was also incredibly attractive with a wonderful figure.

It’s her mother, who wouldn’t do that for their own mother??

I've met her through work, incredibly sharp witted, very direct and I was impressed at the detail she knew about the work we do. Much more competent than her brothers!