Princess Anne’s thoughts....

Not a monarchist but I quite admire Princess Anne as a person. She comes across as a no nonsense hard working pleasant lady and has brought up two very nice children.

I am sorry but I really don't care what Princess Anne is thinking about anything.
I have never liked her - I think she comes across as a really cold and emotionless person.
Actually I tell a lie because I'd love to know what she thinks about her son advertising milk in China - especially all the less than truthful facts in the advert??

She didn't seem like that when she visited my place of work. Perfectly pleasant. ( although she didn't thank me for holding the door open! But then she'd be thanking people continually for such things.)
She keeps a low profile and just gets on with it.

DanniRae I agree that Princess Anne may sometimes ‘appear’ to be detached or emotionless. However, she once, in a very public arena, went out of her way to to offer support to my daughter that demonstrated not only empathy, but a real understanding of my daughter’s needs in that moment. Her response was so sincere and compassionate that since that time (about eight years ago) I’ve viewed her in a very different light.

The epitome of a hard working royal. It's a shame that some of the other royals don't follow her example.

Nice story * Grannyactivist*

We are very fond of her up here in Scotland. She is a hard working royal as has been said and supports a lot of charities. A keen sportswoman and is patron of Scottish Rugby and attends many of their matches. Her daughter chose to marry in Scotland - a fairly low-key affair by royal standards. I too would like to be a fly on the wall if she was discussing H&M with her father!!

She is absolutely on top of her brief and obviously does her homework before attending a function and talking to people.

YOU may be very fond of her Jacq10 but please dont include me or anyone I know.The woman does a job for which she is very well paid ....oh if only everyone could be handed huge sums of taxpayers cash for smiling (sometimes) and shaking hands .She does what she has to do to keep her standard of living...like the rest of us .Having her name on a charities notepaper doesn't make her a saint.I know many people older than her who work their socks off for charities for no pay .Maybe they are the ones you should be applauding!!

And I applaud them Paddyanne as we should. And yes there are so many people working hard for those who need help often never being thanked properly. I am in no way saying I agree with a monarchy but as an individual Anne is ok.

Princess Anne does not get public funding.
Presumably she may get expenses for each public visit she makes.

She certainly doesn't spend a lot on clothes as many have been re-fashioned.

There are a lot of misconceptions about the RF and their funding.

huge sums of public cash

Do you have a link to details of her expenditure, please, paddyann
We could scrutinise it and see if she is good value for money.

A reply to some of the posters on here that were of the opinion that my post was maybe facetious. To MawB I did not even presume to know Princess Anne in fact how could I? anymore than even any of you who are writing in the posts.

Perhaps I could have worded it better and it could have come across differently I do like Princess Anne but she will not give any public interviews on anything that is going on with the Queen or anyone else at the moment. Princess Anne out of all the Queens children has always been completely stiff upper lip and get on with the job in fact often overlooked when really she is a hard worker.
I did give an opinion it was my opinion Anne does love her horses to death everyone knows that also her dogs and now she has grand-children as well. Let her have her privacy and her life if some of the other Royals are making a mess of their lives it is not her fault why should she lose sleep over them.

PaddyAnne Your postings about royalty could benefit from some facts.
"Princess Anne has set a precedent for working as a senior royal and establishing private finances.

Her residence, Gatcombe Park, is privately owned and the Princess Royal runs the estate as a working farm, and as a venue for equestrian eventing.

This means that she does not receive income form the Sovereign Grant for its upkeep, unlike other royal residences.

Although the princess has attracted criticism in the past for her stated desire to live as a private citizen, nevertheless her decision to finance her estate privately has meant she has been able to enjoy more freedom in her private life.

Her children, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, are not working royals and do not have any royal titles, either.

Anne’s children meet their own expenses from their careers – Peter owns a sports management company, and Zara is a professional sportswoman.

From www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1166642/royal-news-revealed-royal-family-public-funding-queen-elizabeth-ii-meghan-markle-spt

Anne doesn’t ‘do media’, doesn’t do public huggy caring.

She does much for charities and cares .

Several of the Royal Family who have been accused of receiving tax payers' money have not received anything from the Civil List now Sovereign Grant since 1992!

I like Princess Anne

She's the most hard working Royal

Most of her engagements aren't particularly publicised by the national press

Some posters ideas are still stuck in 1992, Callistemon

It's like banging wall head your against (arrange in a sensible order) to try to explain or put on a link hoping people will say 'oh, really. I didn't know that! That's interesting'