Princess Anne at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth.Photo: Martin Meissner - Pool/Getty
Princess Annestayed home on Christmas morning for her health.
The Princess Royal, 72, was visibly missing from the traditional Christmas church service at Sandringham with the royal family on Sunday. According toHello!,Anne was absent because she had a cold.
While Princess Anne wasn’t present, several members of the royal family gathered at Sandringham for the first Christmas withoutQueen Elizabeth, who died at age 96 in September. Anne’s childrenZara TindallandPeter Phillipsmade the morning walk with their families to St. Mary Magdalene Church near Sandringham House.
Mike, Lena and Zara Tindall.Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
Isla, Peter and Savannah Phillips.Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images
According to the data, Princess Anne undertook 214 engagements this year, ahead of her brotherKing Charles III, who clocked 181 engagements in the last 12 months. Anne keeps her crown as the hardest-working member of the royal family for the second year running, having logged 387 official engagements in 2021,The Timesreported, ahead of Charles, 74, who attended 385 events.
Anne also took on a number of personal duties this year, including accompanying her mother’s coffin from Scotland, where the monarch died at Balmoral Castle on Sept. 8, back to the U.K.
King Charles.JANE BARLOW/POOL/AFP/Getty
Princess Anne was theonly female member of the royal familyto take part in the funeral processions for the Queen. She alsomade historyas the first female participant in the Vigil of the Princes, when all of the late monarch’s four children stood a symbolic watch at their mother’s coffin at St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.
King Charles, Princess Anne,Prince AndrewandPrince Edwardlaterperformed the ritualagain when the Queen was lying in state at Westminster Hall.
source: people.com
