Anne: The Princess Royal at 70 - Part 1

she never wanted to be a fairy tale princess as a member of the royal family females were tended to be treated as honorary men she loves driving the tanks and firing the guns as the princess royal prepares for her 70th birthday we've had unique access to her family and her world daughter good morning ed windsor wife any husband who makes a comment on his wife's uh fashion style is a very brave or risky man mother it's unbelievable the information that's stored in her brain it's quite annoying as well it is quite nice yes and grandmother i've offered to try and do some homeschooling i haven't seen hiding a hair of them at that suggestion we hear from old friends with memories of the young princess she was more determined than most more competitive than most see how she planned her own education i did volunteer to go to school i have to say became a trend-setting it girl the vocabulary is for extraordinary women and dedicated herself to a life of service becoming one of the hardest working royals she was lovely she really does hold a conversation with you does anyone ever try to tell her to slow down a bit i mean good luck she's in the public eye but has managed to stay intensely private anne doesn't crave the limelight she probably had her filler of being in the newspapers when she was young being royal in the media age can be tough anne was a pioneer the pressure that is applied to the younger members of the family is hard sometimes to deal with the princess royal has always gone her own way the first royal olympian it is probably the most dangerous sport on the planet as fearless in the saddle good evening shots have been far to princess anne as in the face of a kidnapper i had thought about it before that what would you do if now in close-up ann elizabeth alice louise the princess royal as we've never seen her before goldfish in a bowl here [Music] oh there he goes hello big boy summer 2020 and like the rest of the country the princess royal is self-isolating at home in her case gatcom park in gloucestershire we have catalan sheep here partly because environmentally you're better off if you share the feeding actually the fertilizing as well thank you dear in any other summer gatcam would be hosting the festival of british eventing a sport where horses and riders undergo timed trials princess anne has been the royal face of the sport for 50 years the festival's informal a chance for the public to see her up close the princess's children zara tindall and peter phillips live locally their children are on hand to help out their grandmother she loves seeing the ride she loves having them around for sunday lunches and taking them for walks and doing all the stuff that we used to do as kids she now takes them to do those sorts of things yeah we quite like leaving them on sundays i'll say pick them up later see you later and they are off racing off they go around the outside number six alfie alberta is going like a storm around the outside there he's on the festival's a family affair but this year kovid19 changed that once it was legal for her grandchildren to approach the princess was ready to play school mom they've got ponies and they come over and they can ride here but they are they they face the same challenges of everybody else in terms of homeschooling and i think that's actually that is a challenge wherever you are i've offered to try and do some outdoor learning but so far it hasn't been taken up on when i was small we had to pick things and then press them and identify them and i don't think anybody does that anymore and i was thinking you know it might be a good idea if we started doing that again i haven't seen hiding a hair of them at that suggestion [Laughter] it's the longest time i've ever spent uh gaccum in the 40 odd years we've been here it's frustrating i think but look around him is not hard here the idea of being stuck in an um a block of flats with small children and um can't imagine how difficult that would be five decades she's been used to a pact work schedule the princess royal didn't expect to spend her 70th year down on the farm working from home has been a challenge husband vice admiral sir tim lawrence has seen the frustration almost everything that she does in a public way involves people coming together to to to meet her for for some reason or another so that's been extremely difficult the charity work is constant it's tom here i'm just going to introduce her majesty to the queen but country broadband isn't these aren't your average conference calls either uh good morning at windsor good morning i'm very glad to be able to join you and can you see everybody you should have six people on your screen yes well i can see four anyway okay very nice actually don't need me you know what i look like um with online technology being in touch is one thing but it's not quite the same the ability to meet people that's what makes the difference i know what twitter is but i wouldn't go anywhere near it um if you paid me frankly but that's slightly different issue so i do feel pretty useless stuck here in relative terms to what i think i should be doing [Music] whatever the new normal brings the old normal was a life of duty seasons marked by state events at buckingham palace evenings filled with charity dinners and speeches most mornings involve an early start even before the transport arrives the princess has a daily schedule of public appearances today they're all over kent she's very hard working she's the busiest member of the royal family regularly carrying out over 500 engagements a year well away days each of those will probably be different and different reasons for going many of the voluntary organizations and if you can do anything to raise their profile then you will have achieved something you are reflecting her majesty's position but most of the time you are i think in my case just trying to cover the the bits of the country that most other people won't get to huxley haven't practiced your bower mommy practice the courtesy then ready there we are see it's good isn't it that's my curse is that right what to do with your hands today the first organization is english rural near ashford villagers are getting ready for the royal opening of some new homes princess sam's coming to visit my house he's a bit nervous with two young boys but there you go oh no it's very exciting i hear she's quite a country girl like me we have to send her programs her briefs her speeches and god help me if there was something missing she would read with a really sharp eye and i i remember once i've never forgotten it she said private secretary what normally comes after 16 and i knew then that page 17 of the brief was missing the organization has back stories that have got useful to know so that's you know either length of time people involved impact of what it does she's like a sponge it's unbelievable the information that's stored in her brain it's incredible it's quite annoying as well it is quite annoying yes yes i first registered an interest about a year and a half or two years ago but we're very happy and did you help with decorating huxley would you like to decorate he's been really bad for this morning the first unveiling of the day done then it's back to the helicopter at maidstone hospital a new helipad needs opening we've got about 200 people here i don't suppose she'll be able to say hello to every single one of those but anybody she can say hello to i know they'll really appreciate it sometimes people react in the most extraordinary ways you know they get completely overruled being in front of a princess and thoroughly overdo the curtsies or the bows or don't do it at all or directly shake her hand off which can happen you don't literally work your way through the crowd that's usually left up to other people in some ways it would be just as much fun if you did it all by yourself but that would be a bit chaotic although hollywood at the garden party i just work up the back of the the border which is where the people who didn't want to be seen went that was they were almost pretending they weren't there so that engaging them in conversation was always quite they were always looking at i'm not really here you know i don't really want to talk david and this is lucia so have a nice to meet you so lucia is a senior employee for the whole of the nhs 93 years old and the gmail looks after the junior doctors on this site so she keeps their you know the way they live is called a mess but actually it's very clean it's not a mess at all the impact of a royal visit it's very hard to quantify but you get back into the car and you see people just beaming it's winter two hours before sundown but the princess royal is only halfway through her day's engagements i always reminded many of our colleagues to the british olympic association look while we've all sort of sauntered into a board meeting at two o'clock that runs till five she's probably open five hospitals by the time that she's even had lunch does anyone ever try to tell her to slow down a bit and i mean good luck we would try and you know and then it would be a very short conversation at gillingham there are hospital building works to inspect and staff at the maternity unit of the year to congratulate two events then coming here is amazing and and i know how demanding it is so really from a hat off to her well she a remarkable hard-working woman i'm going to curtsy since i did ballet i'm just going to have to do a little bob [Music] here she's got so much more energy than anybody that i know is 70. well apart from various members of our family but she there's certainly uh she certainly doesn't act it age is not a thing to her it's you know very much the more she keeps doing the the younger she'll stay yeah she always says she doesn't have very good role models for slowing down no that's true i do remember a day the princess must have met a thousand people on four or five engagements and i remember thinking i'm absolutely wrecked at the end of the day um she was still giving everybody the attention she gave at the beginning of the laura and day and their new baby nice to see you were you working here yeah this is another third baby early christmas present i think i don't need to wrap it up the princess is scheduled to land at kensington palace helipad at just after four o'clock a cup of tea change of clothes then should be off to a charity dinner there may be a change to a formal thing a bull ground or cocktail dress and she's so adept at chopping and changing i've not quite mastered the art myself the princess royal's presence is requested at charity dinners most nights of the week she has one golden rule i'm very jealous the princess doesn't drink at all it is a busy day for her she does start early and then doesn't really finish until nine o'clock at night maybe if it's after a dinner quite a lot later i remember when we were living at gatkin that she'd come home from engagements and she'd be exactly what she was wearing and her makeup on stuff put her wheelie boots on and jacket on and then she walks up and goes to do her chickens and get her eggs sitting still really doesn't happen very much sometimes of course it's unavoidable thinking how could you possibly take that long

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Length: 13min 40sec (820 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 02 2021