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.

I thought that was a lovely statement from Anne. Measured, thoughtful and kind.

Amazing and looks so good for 72! X

I really feel for her this week. She hasn’t left her side at all and done all the hard journeys while Edward and Andrew seem to have disappeared and only showing their faces for ‘big things’

i don’t like the monarchy but she would have made a brilliant queen

I think she must be emotionally and physically wrung out.

I really feel for her, she looks so bereft.

I can't imagine what it is like having to grieve in public, under the workd's gaze. I found it hard enough with 100 people at my Mum's funeral.

I can't imagine how they must be feeling.

Through it all she is so like her Mum, commensurate professional, duty first.

Her statement was spot on and so heartfelt

The wishes of the queen are being carried out, commentaries said it was her wish to be accompanied only by Anne. Nothing to do with Edward and Andrew not pulling their weight.

I think she must be exhausted from all this too. She will be a tower of strength to Charles.

Reading comments from yesterday, about her not serving in the military, Ann has been a working royal since she was 18, no faffing going to uni anything. OK she did take time out to compete in the Olympics.

It may well have been a necessary thing at the time, more needed by 'the firm' than anything else. Trying to think who else would have been working Royals at that time Charles would have been in the navy.
The Queen, Philip, Margaret, Queen Mother, the Kents and Gloucesters?

thank you for posting. That looks comfortable and warm!

Totally agree. I present a podcast and she was a guest on it last year and what a delightful lady she was. So down to earth. I also met her at an event once and she told me she liked my shoes!!!

You do not that's not what she actually said, don't you?

They had to bowdlerise it, and 'eff off' was too obvious.....

I think she's my new favourite Royal. She's badass, takes no shit, gets the job done.

Women have been able to serve in the army since 1938 and combat roles since 2018

They have been in frontline combat roles way before then.

You are perhaps thinking of the changes in 2016 which meant women could have ground close-combat roles for the first time (essentially that means able to join the infantry)

But that is not the only type of combat role

I love her too especially the being photographed in the same outfit decades apart and the fact that she was known to have cut out and presented the "Two Courses for £5" from the Times back in the day (sorry if already mentioned)

A friend of mine used to be Princess Anne’s private secretary back in the day. A lovely boss, no airs and graces at all. Just got on with the job at hand. Apparently Peter and Zara used to come into the office, sit on my friend’s desk and ask where their mum was and what she was up to that day; they had a close, modern relationship that was very loving and affectionate.

I’ve always liked her.

I hope that we have a new statue, on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, which is the right shape for an equestrian statue, and that is of her, riding sidesaddle on Burma as she did for Trooping the Colour for so many years

Is it true she chose not to give children any titles?

Best thing she could have done:

Princess Anne is a regular at the rugby here and well liked for not standing on ceremony.

I wince a bit at some of the sexism/ageism that creeps into any discussion of a forthright woman. She is of course a beautiful woman (and not a twenty year old woman!), more to the point she is an excellent ambassador for her sex and an example to us all as was her mother. There has never been any question of her not fulfilling the same expectations of duty as her brothers and that is deliberate and as it should be. Equality by grace and cleverness for the good of us all.

I think she has done so well this week, she must be very tired and has been entirely gracious.

She once bought one of my wee cousins a Mars bar!

I feel utter respect for the strength of that woman. It is not easy not to crumble at the sadness or bowing heads of big numbers of people paying respect to a relative, but to stay in one piece while after so many hours/days while following or walking with the hearse… she must be made of something special.

If you swapped the hair colour on each of them princess Anne would be the queens double. She's my favourite royal and the fact she's patron of Scottish rugby and always roots for Scotland makes me love her more

stoic.

What a wonderful lady. I have nothing but complete respect for her.

Yes - but the decision wasn't made when she had the DC.

It was when she married, and chose that Capt Mark Phillips would not be ennobled as a wedding present (ie not following the pattern of Princess Margaret and the ennoblement of Lord Snowdon)

That meant there was no title for them to have

I had heard that titles were also considered as each turned 18. If That's true, they must have been rejected at that point as well

They were offered a title for Mark Philips both when they married and then when Peter was born. Turned down both times.

Lovely statement. I'm in Edinburgh and have seen her twice now accompanying the Queen. She warms my heart.