On March 20, 1974, Princess Anne was almost kidnapped. The only daughter of the late Queen Elizabeth II and late Prince Philip was on her way to Buckingham Palace with her then-husband Mark Phillips after a film screening when their maroon Rolls Royce was waylaid on the Mall by a white Ford Escort. Anne's Scotland Yard-issued bodyguard, Inspector James Beaton, got out of the car and was shot in the shoulder by Ian Ball, a 26-year-old unemployed laborer from north London. Beaton fired back once but then his gun jammed. Ball approached the Rolls and ordered Anne to get out—or he'd shoot. "Bloody likely," the 23-year-old princess...
- 9/18/2022
- E! Online
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Season four of The Crown puts a younger generation of princess firmly at the center of the story: Princess Diana. The princess who gets the short end of things, though, is Princess Anne, and that's one of the show's biggest mistakes. Played by Erin Doherty with a wonderfully vinegary attitude and just the right amount of vulnerability, Anne is one of the most exciting characters, but also one of the least explored.
Of course, part of this is just a side effect of the fact that, as the show goes on and the cast gets bigger, more and more characters are relegated to side plots. Even characters who used to have significant roles in the plot, like the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, are given less and less to do by the time the fourth season rolls around. The difference between them and Anne, however, is that...
Season four of The Crown puts a younger generation of princess firmly at the center of the story: Princess Diana. The princess who gets the short end of things, though, is Princess Anne, and that's one of the show's biggest mistakes. Played by Erin Doherty with a wonderfully vinegary attitude and just the right amount of vulnerability, Anne is one of the most exciting characters, but also one of the least explored.
Of course, part of this is just a side effect of the fact that, as the show goes on and the cast gets bigger, more and more characters are relegated to side plots. Even characters who used to have significant roles in the plot, like the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, are given less and less to do by the time the fourth season rolls around. The difference between them and Anne, however, is that...
- 11/19/2020
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Today Princess Anne — the only daughter and second of four children born to Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip — turns 67. It has been an eventful seven decades for the Princess Royal (her official title — read on for why), from an Olympic equestrian career to a harrowing kidnapping attempt. Here’s what you need to know about the frugal, hard-working, tough-as-nails royal:
1. She’s low maintenance.She may be a princess, but Anne’s life has never been about tiaras and glamour. In fact, Prince Philip once said of his daughter, “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested.
1. She’s low maintenance.She may be a princess, but Anne’s life has never been about tiaras and glamour. In fact, Prince Philip once said of his daughter, “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t interested.
- 8/15/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Having just spent the last 10 days at the Olympic Games in Rio, where she was stunningly saluted by the Fiji rugby team, Queen Elizabeth's second child and only daughter, Princess Anne was back on home soil on Monday to celebrate her 66th birthday. • Want to keep up with the latest royals coverage? Click here to subscribe to the Royals Newsletter.Here are some surprising facts about the flinty, athletic and impressively thrifty royal mom of two (and grandmother of three!), born on August 15, 1950 - and the only one of Elizabeth's four children to be singled out for her own portrait...
- 8/15/2016
- by Monique Jessen, @moniquejessen
- PEOPLE.com
Having just spent the last 10 days at the Olympic Games in Rio, where she was stunningly saluted by the Fiji rugby team, Queen Elizabeth's second child and only daughter, Princess Anne was back on home soil on Monday to celebrate her 66th birthday. • Want to keep up with the latest royals coverage? Click here to subscribe to the Royals Newsletter.Here are some surprising facts about the flinty, athletic and impressively thrifty royal mom of two (and grandmother of three!), born on August 15, 1950 - and the only one of Elizabeth's four children to be singled out for her own portrait...
- 8/15/2016
- by Monique Jessen, @moniquejessen
- PEOPLE.com
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