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Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Mountbatten-Windsor; born 15 August 1950) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , and the only sister of King Charles III .
Upon her mother's accession to the throne in 1952, the territorial designation was dropped and she became styled as "The Princess Anne". After she married Captain Mark Phillips in 1973, she was styled as "The Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips" until her mother created her Princess Royal , an appellation given only to the eldest daughter of the ...
Princess Royal is a style customarily (but not automatically) awarded by British monarchs to their eldest daughters. Although purely honorary, it is the highest honour that may be given to a female member of the royal family. [1] There have been seven Princesses Royal; Princess Anne became Princess Royal in 1987. [2]
Queen Anne became Great Britain's first monarch. She was one of eight children, but only two of them survived. As a child, she had an eye condition called defluxion, which made her eyes constantly ...
Did Princess Elizabeth really find out she was queen while in Africa? Yes. When her father, King George VI, died February 6, 1952, Princess Elizabeth (Claire Foy) and her husband Prince Philip ...
Princess Anne and Prince Charles are just two years apart in age, with Charles born in 1948 and Anne in 1950. She is the late Queen’s second child, and is known for being one of the most ...
Anne (centre) and her sister Mary (left) with their parents, the Duke and Duchess of York, painted by Peter Lely and Benedetto Gennari II. Anne was born at 11:39 p.m. on 6 February 1665 at St James's Palace, London, the fourth child and second daughter of the Duke of York (later King James II and VII), and his first wife, Anne Hyde. [1]
Princess Anne, and Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh talk with Major General Eldon Millar (C) and South Korea’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Yoon Yeocheol (2R), and Director of ...