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22 unusual facts about Anne, Princess Royal


1970 VFL season

Before the start of the third quarter, the Richmond and Fitzroy players lined up in front of the Members' Stand and were introduced to The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales and The Princess Anne, who then watched the last half of the match.

1985 Grand National

Each rider was introduced to the crowd before being presented with an Aynsley China Trophy by HRH Princess Anne.

Ariel King

In 2010, she also met with Princess Anne (Anne, Princess Royal) in the United Kingdom to discuss her non-profit work.

Baggeridge Colliery

The former coalfields are now the site of Baggeridge Country Park, landscaped with a lake, wooded areas and walkways; work commenced in 1981 and the new country park was officially opened by The Princess Anne on 17 June 1983.

Bettina Hoy

Bettina and her husband Andrew Hoy, who competed at the Olympic level for Australia, had lived for 12 years in Gloucestershire, at the Gatcombe Park estate of The Princess Royal.

Broomfield Hospital

In 1983 The Princess Anne opened the CAT scanner following years of fund raising and returned in 1987 to open a new ward block.

Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel fire

The Princess Royal visited Childers on 2 July, just a week after the blaze, to meet the surviving backpackers and others involved in the disaster.

Craig Reedie

In 1994, in addition to his British role, Reedie joined the International Olympic Committee (IOC), where he is currently one of three United Kingdom representatives, the others being HRH the Princess Royal and Sir Philip Craven.

Crown in Saskatoon

Other members of the Royal Family who have visited include Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in 1980, the Prince of Wales (Charles) in 2001, the Princess Anne in 1982 and (as Princess Royal) in 2004, the Duke and Duchess of York (Andrew and Sarah) in 1989, and the Prince Edward in 1978.

Helene Chung Martin

As a freelancer for three years overseas, in Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Cairo, in 1971 she made headlines with the first radio interview granted by The Princess Anne.

John A. Osborne Airport

Gerald's passenger terminal was dedicated in February 2005 by Anne, Princess Royal and the facility was formally opened on July 11, 2005.

Monarchy in Manitoba

Princess Anne and her elder brother, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, presided over the celebrations of the centennial of Manitoba's entry into Confederation.

Monarchy in Saskatchewan

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, presided over the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Saskatchewan's entry into Confederation and Princess Anne marked Regina's centennial.

Princess Anne Glacier

Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961-62) for Anne, Princess Royal, daughter of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Reliant Scimitar

Princess Anne was given a manual overdrive SE5 as a joint 20th birthday present and Christmas present in November 1970 by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.

The fifth Middlebridge Scimitar built was delivered to HRH The Princess Anne.

Royal Academy of Engineering

The Royal Fellows of the Academy comprise Prince Philip, the Duke of Kent, and Anne, Princess Royal.

Sandy Pflueger

On 1 February 1997, Sandy Pflueger married British Olympian and coach of the American Eventing team, Captain Mark Phillips, whose first wife was Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II.

Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine

The Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine was officially opened by the Princess Royal on 28 May 2012.

Steven Wickham

Steven Wickham began his career after leaving college and joining a theatre in education group called Bucket Theatre, touring schools in Buckinghamshire, performing at one occasion for HRH The Princess Anne.

Tuen Mun Ferry Pier Stop

On the previous day, the Light Rail Transit system was declared open by Anne, Princess Royal, at this stop; the commemorative plaque she unveiled still remains intact.

Wharfedale Hospital

The current hospital, located off Newall Carr Road, cost £15 million to build and was opened on 26 January 2005 by HRH The Princess Royal.


1642 in England

Undated - Charles' eldest daughter Mary becomes the first child of an English Sovereign to be granted the title Princess Royal.

Alfredo Razon Gonzalez

He is married to Regina Anne Marie Arcenas-Gonzalez, Managing Director of Terry S.A., Inc. (Official distributor of Havaianas, David & Goliath, Pininho, and Dupe in the Philippines).

Anne Annette Minna Chapman

Anne Annette Minna Cochrane, DCVO, DStJ (born 1855 – died 6 January 1943), the daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane and his wife, Rosetta (née Wheeler-Cuffe), was a British noblewoman.

Anne Appleby

Anne Appleby currently splits her time between San Francisco and her home on the edge of a national forest in Jefferson City, Montana.

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton

Anne Crofton, 1st Baroness Crofton (11 January 1751 – 12 August 1817) was an Irish suo jure peeress.

Anne de Graaf

Anne de Graaf was born in San Francisco, graduated from Stanford University, and currently lives in Ireland and the Netherlands with her husband and their two children.

Anne LeBaron

Her 1991 recording Phantom orchestra featured the Anne LeBaron Quintet (Frank London, trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Davey Williams, electric guitar; Gregg Bendian, drums, vibraphone, percussion; and Anne LeBaron, harp with electronics).

Anne of France

Anne was born at the Chateau of Genappe in Brabant on 3 April 1461, the eldest surviving daughter of King Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy.

Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

Anne Vallée

In 2002, Alison Watt published the book The Last Island, A naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island, where she recalled her experience in the summer of 1980 when she assisted Anne Vallée in her research on Tufted Puffins.

Anne-Marie Rivier

Anne-Marie Rivier (known to her family as Marinette) was born on 19 December 1768, in Montpezat-sous-Bauzon in the Ardèche Department, south-central France.

Battle of Quebec

Quebec Expedition (1711), British expedition to capture the city during the Queen Anne's War or War of the Spanish Succession; the expedition turned back after ships foundered on the coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton

Lady Anne died in 1751 and the Duke married Lavinia Fenton on 20 October 1751 at Aachen.

Charlie Clemmow

Clemmow has recently filmed the part of Anne Simpson in the one off, half an hour TV drama "The Tractate Middoth", written and directed by Mark Gatiss - based on one of M. R. James's chilling short stories.

Chase Price

By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, he was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780), Barrister from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of Captain Thomas Foley, and had female issue.

Children of Light

Gordon, an alcoholic drug addict whose wife has left him and who has a bad relationship with his children, goes to Mexico to crash the making of a movie version of Kate Chopin's The Awakening that Lu Anne is starring in, and discovers that she has gone off of her medication in an attempt to more fully embody her character.

Constance Chapman

Born at Weston-super-Mare, her roles include Mrs. Brown in the 1982 Granada Television adaptation of A Kind of Loving and Anne in the Children's science fiction series, The Georgian House (1976).

CV Productions, Inc.

“The Sports Museum has brought to light the central role that Pittsburgh has played in the sports of boxing and wrestling, focusing on such greats as Bruno Sammartino and Kurt Angle,” said Anne Madarasz, co-director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.

David Ross McCord

He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.

Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

In 1790 Anne-César, Chevalier de la Luzerne, the French ambassador to Great Britain, reported that Therese's husband was being considered for the new throne of the Austrian Netherlands and that Therese's aunt Queen Charlotte would support this; these turned out to be unfounded rumors, as Charlotte and her husband George III believed Karl Alexander of insufficient rank for kingship.

Edward Fitton, the elder

He was buried on 21 September in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin beside his wife Anne Warburton.

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer

Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, KG (also called Despenser) (c. 24 March 1335 or 1336 – 11 November 1375) was the son of another Edward le Despenser and Anne, the sister of Henry, Lord Ferrers of Groby.

Edward Salwey

Salwey was the son of Humphrey Salwey of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme and his wife Anne Littleton, daughter of Sir Edward Littleton.

Essie Honiball

The high fruit, low fat and all raw diet, which Honiball promotes has been referred to in the writings of health authors including Anne Osborne, Brian R. Clement Ph.D, Dr. Douglas Graham, and Viktoras Kulvinskas.

Fairfield Porter

About 250 of Porter's works, including Anne in a Striped Dress, 1967, were left by his estate to the Parrish Art Museum.

Gerard Lally

At Romans on the 18 April 1701 he married Anne-Marie, the daughter of Charles Jacques de Bressac, seigneur de La Vache; they had a son Thomas Arthur Lally.

Guillaume Sayer

Beek at Ste Anne, Bout de l'Isle at the western end of the Island of Montreal.

James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond

He had two younger brothers, John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, and Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, as well as two sisters, Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, and Anne Butler (d. 4 January 1435), who was contracted to marry Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, although the marriage appears not to have taken place.

John Vaillant

The book was also selected for the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, defended by lawyer and television personality Anne-France Goldwater.

Juliet Prowse

Juliet Anne Prowse (September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996) was an Anglo-Indian dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film.

Karl Dean

Dean is married to Anne Davis, who is one of the four heirs of the Joe C. Davis, Jr. and Rascoe Davis coal fortunes and a proprietor of the Joe Davis Family Foundation in Nashville.

La Musica Lirica

Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais

Marie-Claude Bourbonnais (born October 15, 1979 in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, Quebec) is a Canadian glamour and cosplay model.

Mary Anne Clarke

Her daughter, born of her marriage to Clarke, married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and was the mother of the caricaturist George du Maurier (1834–96) and the great-grandmother of the novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), who wrote a book about her (Mary Anne).

Mary Fitton

In June 1600 Mary led a dance in the masque celebrating the fashionable wedding of Lady Anne Russell, granddaughter of the Earl of Bedford, with Henry Somerset, later created Marquess of Worcester, at Lord Cobham's residence in Blackfriars.

Numbertime

This series also introduced the character of Addem (voiced by Brian Bowles), a snake who discovered the series' concept in the company of an ant named Anne (voiced by Moir Leslie) and a hundred other ants (voiced by Richard Pearce).

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

He married Anne Howard, daughter of Peter Howard, in 1962 and became involved through Howard in Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement, which attracted much negative comment.

Penny Downie

She is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company where she has played roles such as Lady Anne in Richard III alongside Antony Sher, and Hermione and Perdita in The Winter's Tale.

Popstar!

In 2013, Mary Anne Cassata became Editorial Director and Colleen Broomall was named its new Editor-in-Chief.

Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Aldred Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough (5 Dec 1932 – 23 Mar 2004); married Lady Elizabeth Anne Ramsay (daughter of Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie), had 4 children

Sarah Anne Curzon

Sarah Anne Curzon's daughter was one of the first females to receive a B.A. from the University of Toronto.

Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet

He was the son of Nicholas Osborne (d. 25 December 1714) and wife Anne Parsons and grandson of Sir Thomas Osborne, 5th Baronet.

Tad Danielewski

Tad Danielewski and his second wife, Lillian, had three children: a daughter, Anne Danielewski (the musician Poe), and two sons, Christopher and Mark, a novelist (House of Leaves and Only Revolutions).

Thomas and Ann Borrow

In 1757 he married Anne Ault of Loughborough and came into the use of £4,000 and lands and property in Litchurch and the parish of St Peters.

Victorian Naturalist

It is edited, as of October 2013, by Anne Morton, Gary Presland and Maria Gibson.

Whitworth Hall, County Durham

John was the father of Robert Shafto, better known as Bobby Shaftoe, who vastly increased the family fortune by his marriage in 1774 to Anne Duncombe of Duncombe Park.

William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire

#Lord Charles Cavendish (17 March 1704 – 28 April 1783) married Anne Grey on 9 January 1727, father of Henry Cavendish