It may simply be the familial resemblance, however we’re additionally already getting Princess Anne vibes—although as a result of archaic system of male primogeniture in place on the time, the queen’s second-eldest little one wasn’t even thought-about the spare inheritor as soon as her youthful brother Prince Andrew was born, and she or he stays decrease on the ladder than all six of her nieces and nephews.
However Anne, although a full-time working royal who most years outpaced her brother Charles in official engagements, has concurrently been the image of a contemporary, independently minded member of the household—one who did not give her son, Peter Phillips, and daughter, Zara Tindall, royal titles so as to foster their very own independence from the crown.
An achieved equestrienne and free to pursue her dream (“for a restricted time,” she informed Vanity Fair), Anne was the primary British royal to compete within the Olympics. In any other case, she has devoted most of her public life to varied charities, most notably Save the Youngsters, which she’s been president of since 1970. And, not not like lots of the girls in her household, she’s been hailed as a style icon in her personal proper.