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unusual facts about The Princess Royal



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.

British Quality Foundation

The BQF’s Patron is The Princess Royal and the current President is David Callaghan, Senior Vice President Alliances and Channels, Oracle Corporation Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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.

John Dalrymple, 14th Earl of Stair

Lord Stair's mother, Davina, therefore, is a first cousin of The Queen and he is a second cousin of The Prince of Wales, The Princess Royal, The Duke of York, and The Earl of Wessex.

Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom

Her godparents were The Prince of Wales (Amelia's eldest brother), The Princess Royal (her eldest sister), and The Princess Augusta Sophia (her second eldest sister).

Sara Leighton

She recalls her encounters with many of her clients and friends including Lord Olivier, The Prince of Wales, Muhammad Ali, Sheikh Yamani, Gloria Swanson, Pietro Annigoni, Sir Roger Moore, Jean Rook, David Niven, Shirley Bassey, Joan Collins, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, The Princess Royal and the Beaverbrook family.

Sea Princess

The Princess Royal and her daughter Zara Phillips named the sister ships in the first double ship naming ceremony ever.

Townswomen's Guild

The Townswomen’s Guilds’ (TG) Patron is Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal and the organisation’s National President is Dame Diana Brittan DBE and National Vice-Presidents are; Dame Jocelyn Barrow DBE, Eileen Bell CBE, Baroness Flather and Esther Rantzen CBE.

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.


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C. Thomas Elliott

A conference centre at DERA Malvern (by 2007 QinetiQ) was named 'The Tom Elliott Centre' in his honour when opened by the Princess Royal in 2007.

Christ Church, Sandown

The ‘Princess Royal Chapel’ is named after Princess Victoria, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, who gave a window in it.

Monarchy in Saskatchewan

The Queen or others in her family may bestow awards in person: in 2004, the Princess Royal presented to 25 recipients the Saskatchewan Protective Services Medal, marking the first time a member of the Royal Family had presented a provincial honour in Canada, and, when the Queen was in the province in 2005, she appointed Saskatchewan citizens to the Royal Victorian Order.

Princess Royal, Western Australia

The mine and town were both named after the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria the Princess Royal, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa.

Royal Australian Corps of Signals

On 5 July 2000, a parade was held for her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, The Princess Royal at Simpson Barracks, Watsonia, marking the 75th anniversary of the Corps.

Sport in Bristol

Bristol Handball Club are the sole club and are based at The City Academy Bristol, though they play their "home" games at the Princess Royal Sports Complex in Wellington, Somerset due to lack of facilities in Bristol.