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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Princess Anne's Friend Reveals Her Terrifying Horse Accident Was "So Much Worse" Than the Royal Family "Let On"

Princess Anne wearing a green coat and fur hat smiling .

It's been a year since Princess Anne experienced a mysterious horse-related accident that left her with a concussion and memory loss. The incident caused her daughter, Zara Tindall, to be "shaken to the core," as OK! reported at the time—and as one source close to the princess recently shared, the Princess Royal's accident was "much worse" than the public ever knew.

In June 2024, Princess Anne was hospitalized for five days after suffering what a palace statement called "minor injuries and a concussion" from an "incident" at her home, Gatcombe Park. The Princess Royal returned to duties that July, sharing that she had absolutely no memory of the accident—which doctors described "as being consistent with the type of impact from a horse's legs or head," per the BBC.

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