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The Princess Royal at 70
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W
e all know Princess
Anne, don’t we?
Doughty, into horses,
likes a padded body
warmer and probablysays things like “stuff and nonsense”
a lot. In Anne: The Princess Royal at
70 she said that she didn’t have any
training for the job of being a royal,
she just got on it with it; 500
engagements a year, riding tanks one
day, meeting an equestrian charity for
disabled children the next.
So far, so Anne, a woman whose
workaholism is often quietly
puffed by courtiers. But actually,
watching this film of her at work
over the course of a year, seeing
the scale of it all close up, you wonder
how she can have got to 70 without
a whole library of programmes
like this.
She probably hates such fuss, but as
an asset she’s been rather too hidden
given that she was the first royal
Olympian (in the surprisingly
dangerous sport of eventing), has
graced the cover of Vogue, survived
a kidnap attempt, was the first royal
to wear a miniskirt and pioneered
the meet-and-greet “walkabout”.
She must have engaged in decades of
small talk across a lifetime and is
rather adept at it.
Programmes like this often have
civilians fawning about what meeting
a royal meant to them and this was no
exception. However, it felt unusually
authentic. Yes, it was a clear PR
exercise, but given that the subject
herself would rather die before gilding
any reputational lilies, especially her
own, she emerged almost by accident
as perhaps the great Windsor hope.
“You don’t need me, you know
what I look like,” she told her mother
in a Zoom call, of all things, with
various charity people, and the Queen
showed traces of a wry, loving smile.
Prince Andrew was meant to be the
Queen’s favourite child. We now
know who it should be.
The absurdist (and occasionally
cruel) Channel 4 comedy TheWindsors portrays Anne as Mrs
Danvers from Rebecca, sending a
glacial chill into every room she
enters. Last night we discovered that
her abiding characteristic is actually
warmth. She said that during
lockdown she had offered her
grandchildren some home lessons, an
offer that wasn’t taken up, but which
would have involved walking around
fields and pressing flowers.
The only hiccup came when she
said she didn’t watch “Netflix or
The Crown”, yet still had something to
say about the drama. The “early ones
were quite interesting”, she revealed,
while also making it quite clear that
she’s not a fan.
“Making a series about people
who are still living is always quite a
dangerous thing to do I think,” she
sniffed. She also couldn’t believe that
Erin Doherty, who played her in the
most recent series, spent hours on her
hair when it actually took Anne ten or
15 minutes. That was her told.
Obviously, certain questions
weren’t answered — or perhaps
even asked. She did talk about the
“pressure” on younger Windsors,
but I’d have paid a Princess Royal’s
ransom to know what she really
thought about Meghan, Harry et al.
It would be nice to think that they
tuned in as well. They could certainly
learn a thing or two from good old
The Princess Royal was more impressive than is often assumed Auntie Annie.This is who the Queen’s favourite child should be
Ben
D owell
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