With all the fuss about the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge being made every time a new engagement is announced, it’s worth reflecting sometimes that despite their public appearance, and the media coverage of their appearances, they are by no means the most active members of the Royal Family. Indeed now, it is often the most active members who are overlooked.
Princess Anne has been performing royal engagements non-stop for most of her life. She has the most number of charitable patronages for any member of the Royal Family and every year performs more engagements than any other member of the Royal Family, almost doubling her nearest rival in some years.
Despite her enormous number of engagements and undeniably good work, coverage even of her most choicest engagements are shunned.
Could this be because she is only 12th in line to the throne? Probably not. The most likely reason is what she does has become so frequent that it is no longer newsworthy, which is sad in a way because the Princess Royal is one of the Royal Family’s best assets, and the public doesn’t even know it!
According to our figures, The Princess Royal has been the hardest working royal for the past two years running – having conducted more engagements than any other member of her family on 2015 and 2016. In prior years, she has always finished in 2nd, behind Prince Charles.
Really, Princess Anne doesn’t receive enough thanks for the work she does, without which the Royal Family certainly wouldn’t be the same!
I thoroughly agree with this article. The Princess Royal is an asset to the Royal Family.
She may not receive national coverage for her work, but you can often find articles in the local media covering a visit to an organization in their town, which means that the organization is receiving publicity locally which undoubtedly helps them.
I think that the princess Royal and princess Anne is so down to earth and marvellous and to a certain way makes up for other royals making mistakes in their lives.
She was born into the family of Service to England. Others that are high profile were bought into the family by marriage. It’s the very good looking stylish ones that the press always play up on.
One more parasite in a family filled with them.
Oh dear another little republican who is green with envy I shouldn’t wonder.
Hats off to HRH Princess Anne – she is an asset to the nation and Happy Birthday to her for today!