How Princess Anne carries her own luggage, refuses special privileges and even says no to help when she falls over! Inside the life of Britain's hardest working - and most down to earth - royal
Daily MailFor decades, Princess Anne has been the nation's no-nonsense royal. She was the first royal ever to compete in the Olympics Prince Phillip talks to Princess Anne prior to her event at the Olympics, while the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew listen in Princess Anne seen in January as she holds her own luggage while boarding a commercial flight to Sri Lanka The Princess Royal was pictured carrying her own luggage as she arrived in Canada in front of her then husband Mark Phillips. Princess Anne drives herself away from the Blue Cross's Animal Adoption Centre in Oxfordshire Princess Anne drives at Sandringham with her father Prince Phillip in the passenger seat, January 2020 In Princess Anne's car door is a water bottle, a Barbara Dickson CD and a race card for the Cheltenham Races, 2008 Anne drives a utility vehicle with her dog in the passenger seat in the grounds of Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire, 2004 But the Princess Royal can drive more than just a car. Princess Anne with her granddaughter Mia Tindall at the Whatley Manor International Horse Trials at Gatcombe Park in 2015 Princess Anne kicks a polo ball for her granddaughter Mia Tindall at Beaufort Polo Club in 2016 Mia Tindall gives her grandmother Princess Anne a kiss at Beaufort Polo Club in Tetbury The Princess Royal and Zara Phillips hold Mia Tindall's hands as she jumps around at Gatcombe Park in 2017 Anne seems to have found true happiness in spending time with the youngsters. Anne wearing her blue fur-lined coat while attending the Christmas day church service at the Sandringham Estate in 2008 The Princess royal looked elegant in a turquoise number she first wore in 1978 as she attended Ascot's second day on Wednesday Anne sporting her favourite Team GB Adidas sunglasses during a visit to the Great Yorkshire Show in 2018 The Princess Royal's trademark mirrored glasses are Team GB branded.
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