Royals, after all, are people just like everyone else.
This is especially true for members of the British royal family who are constantly in the public eye.
This isn’t to say that Queen Elizabeth neglected her children.
PerExpress, the young princess went off to boarding school at the age of 13.
“I didn’t ask to be born a princess!”
she snapped at an interviewer once, as noted byGreat British Life.
“We hated them, can you imagine as teenagers?”
she said in the BBC documentary “The Queen: Her Commonwealth Story” (viaHello!).
“Hardly the sort of thing you would volunteer to do.
It’s no wonder, then, that Anne enjoyed her time at school so much.
While there, she was able to simply be a teenage girl.
While everyone knew, of course, who she was, she was treated just like everyone else.
“I enjoyed the informality of it all,” she’s shared.
The media didn’t see it this way, though.
When her distaste for public life became apparent, the press lambasted her instead of sympathizing with her.
The young princess had a reputation for being difficult because of her impatience with the press.
Anne’s talent for riding soon proved to be formidable.
PerBiography, she competed while in school and, after graduation, studied competitive riding with a professional trainer.
Tragically, the experience was not exactly a glorious one.
Not only did Anne not win a medal, but she also has no memory of the momentous occasion.
Anne’s memory loss is due to a fall she took in the eventing competition at the Montreal Olympics.
“Nothing at all.”
The 1976 Olympics were Princess Anne’s first and only time on the Olympic team.
PerPopSugar, she finished 24th.
PerSmithsonian Magazine, the near-kidnapping occurred in 1974 as Anne was on the way home from a charity event.
An armed man approached her limo, shooting her bodyguard in the shoulder.
The would-be kidnapper tried to get Anne out of the car, but she refused to cooperate.
The man was finally apprehended by the police and was committed to a mental health facility.
Anne and her husband Mark Phillips declined.
“So I think that was probably the right thing to do.”
Her children seem to agree.
Like Anne, Phillips was a talented equestrian, and he won team gold at the 1972 Olympics.
Anneeloped with Sir Timothy Laurencelater that year.
For example, she’s the only member of the British royal family to have a criminal conviction.
PerVanity Fair, Anne was convicted in 2002 after failing to control her dog in a public park.
The dog ended up attacking two children.
One could argue that this unfortunate incident wasn’t entirely Anne’s fault.
In the end, the dog was made to undergo training and Anne had to pay fines.
That’s not the only time Anne has been in trouble with the law, though.
In 1990, she was fined in addition to having her driver’s license suspended for a month.
Princess Anne has been overlooked for most of her life
Princess Anne is a formidable force.
Born as the “spare,” Anne grew up overshadowed by her older brother, King Charles.
Princess Anne shouldn’t be so easily dismissed, though.
Irving added, “She is very underrated … she has done a lot of good work.”
Princess Anne was devastated by the death of her father, as was the rest of the royal family.
