Given that there is no bringing back the late Queen Elizabeth, or indeed her dear mother, it’s hard not to think that the best thing about the Royal Family right now is Princess Anne. I saw her in action a little while ago.
She was giving awards for Pact, an admirable prisoners’ aid society, in a church near Waterloo. She was modest, brisk, rather kind, skinny as a whippet, and well informed. The whole thing wasn’t about her; it was about the charity, and it was plain that she knew her stuff.
