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Emma Rosemurgey

Princess Anne admits Kate Middleton's 'difficult' disadvantage in royal life

Meghan Markle and the Duchess of Cambridge are arguably two of the most famous women in the world, with royal fans and critics all desperate to know every detail of their lives.

Both of their lives changed completely when they married into the royal family and became a subject of fascination for people all over the world.

With Kate set to one day become our Queen, and Meghan finding herself at the centre of the infamous Megxit row, people have become enthralled by the celebrity princesses.

There are few people in the royal family to have captured the attention of the global public like the Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Sussex, but long before they were catapulted to fame, there was another headline-worthy princess.

Princess Anne was really into fashion (VOGUE/ CONDE NAST)
She feels modern royals have an unfair disadvantage (VOGUE / CONDE NAST)

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The Queen's daughter Princess Anne was arguably the first 'modern princess,' posing for Vogue magazine on her 21st birthday and living up to her stylish reputation of bright colours, garish 70s patterns and statement hats.

In an ITV documentary celebrating the Princess Royal's 70th birthday, fashion writer Sarah Mower explained that much of Anne's popularity came down to the fact she was "very much her own person, not her mother or her aunt."

Meghan and Kate have faced huge pressure since joining the royal family (PA)

"She was very fashionable as a young woman, and she was her own person within those parameters," Sarah added.

But, while Anne certainly made her mark on royal history, she has previously spoken about the added pressure faced by young royals - particularly young women - in today's modern age.

"The pressure that is applied to the younger members of the family, it's always worse," she explained in Anne: The Princess Royal at 70

"That's what the media is interested in. That's hard sometimes to deal with. But there was no social media in my day, and it's probably made it more difficult."

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