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Robert Jobson

OPINION - Ode to Princess Anne - the royal who's ‘not bloody likely’ to stop any time soon

She didn’t want any fuss. She never does.

Today, for her 75th, Princess Anne will mark the moment in her own understated way: quietly boarding a boat with her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, to sail into the wind off Scotland’s west coast. No parade. No speeches. No tiaras glinting in the sun. Just Anne, Our Princess Royal, perhaps the greatest Queen we never had.

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