The best Queen we never had: On eve of her 75th birthday, secrets of Princess Anne’s life – from why she never sunbathes to who really does her hair, revealed by REBECCA ENGLISH

Very little will be surprised when Princess Anne is not prone to public emotion demonstrations.

However, after rejecting the endless requests to draw a new portrait to mark the 75th birthday next week, he finally agreed to pose for a picture in Windsor Castle shortly before the French state feast last month.

A condition of Anne? Her husband, Deputy Admiral Sir Tim Laurence next to her.

One from inside, “ Normally very serious, but they could not look happier, ” he said. One side of very few will see.

The couple will set sail around the 42FT Yacht Ballochbuie (after the ancient forested area in Balmoral Estate) around the western islands of Scotland to mark the big day of the next Friday.

Only the mother and an old sea officer will be Sir Tim. There will be no help to accompany them, flunki, not even a single police – which just like he likes.

70 -year -old Sir Tim was equal to Queen Elizabeth when they first met in 1986. This mother’s marriage was collapsed with the captain of the captain Mark Phillips.

Princess and Sir Tim married only months after his divorce, and he had been inseparable since then.

“He was very popular in the Royal Navy,” he says. The same goes for the royal family. Calm and funny and good for him. ‘

For a woman who lives her whole life in the light of spotlight, the Princess, who once a throne heartbeat, is surprisingly known about the royal royal (now 18th in succession).

Even in the 70s, the mother was regularly selected as the most hardworking royal of the royal family. Last year, 474 public participation. However, as the princess refuses to allow journalists to accompany her in official signs – there is a good reason unless persuaded – she has very little publicity.

A source, “ never needed a public opinion court and did not continue to work with at least fuss, ” he says.

However, the mother was convinced to organize an event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate her birthday earlier this year.

It was typically a low key, but you could see that there was a quiet pride. Four hundred organizations, many of whom have been working together for decades, were represented.

Nevertheless, the Princess was lucky to be there after serious head injuries and shaking in an accident in the Gatcombe Park in Gatcombe Park in June last year.

Despite the fact that Gizem was exactly what happened, a sign of the seriousness of the incident was said to be deeply worried about the health of the fan sister’s health.

Queen II. Elizabeth and Prince Philip were depicted in 1951 with their children Charles and Mother

Anne still has no memory of an accident, which seem to confess to intensive care after seemingly fell and was shot by a horse.

Later, he promised ‘take every day as it came’.

Although the speed of the daily program has not changed since then, there is an increasing feeling in the palace circles that the princess may start to perform official tasks for the first time. “There is no sign that you will have yet, and I don’t think it will retire at all, C Courtier says.

“ He often says that this is not an option for a member of the royal family. But even the princess acknowledges that you cannot continue at this speed forever. It usually gets five or more aims a day by entering and exiting the whole week.

‘I think we’ll see that the workload is gently alleviated in the next five to ten years.’

So, how is the mother really behind the glacier?

A fan says it’s quite ‘geeky’. The princess is usually compared to her mother, especially because of common horse lover. However, it is said to have a judicial mind, and the fact that Anne is ready to ‘lateral thinking and questioning traditional wisdom’ makes her his father’s daughter. Mike Aaronson, former General Manager of England, Save The Children, once told me: ‘Maybe because there was no traditional university education [unusually for a royal woman of the time, Anne did go to boarding school, but then went straight out to work as a royal at 19]It is always a little thought outside the box. He’s the usual guilty. ‘

The principle’s durability and courage has always influenced people around.

While the former African director of the children of Save the Child was traveling intensively with him, the Princess’s former Somali dictator Siad Barre is once former b ****** d ‘, Mr Bowden-Kemik Returning to Returning the Cumach Obvious Overwhelming Hand Stuck and discussing the FGM (female young circumcision) in a warm way.

On the same journey, he refused to be postponed when he said that Ethiopian agents from the CIA of the Foreign and Nations Community Office received a clue that they were planning to take the hostage.

He already insisted on going there. We are quite basic accommodation, no flushing toilet, a pit toilet and he still got up and breakfast for everyone on the team remained baked. Aaronson was proud of his fluttering eggs. ‘

In Gambia, his father said that he danced with George Bush Junior, who was then president, but did not ‘jump’ with his efforts to make him interested in new cowboy boots.

He was also known for his ‘fruit’ language. In the 1980s, during a long car journey in Sudan, Aaronson remembered a series of eye -wins blasphemy while trying to change the tape in Walkman and leaped with mud.

“He’s really a master operator, one of the best, or he says. ‘And it is absolutely fearless.’

Another long -term fan tells me a particularly long charity event on an unusual hot day.

The princess sitting on the stage seemed to shake her head.

Suddenly the building began to swing and everyone began to panic.

He muttered the Princess ‘Earthquake’ without jumping a rhythm – without opening his eyes, and then he returned to his ‘thought’.

According to my source, ‘he was a great customer’.

Some say that it is a zero capacity for the Taurus, especially what makes him stand out as a member of the monarchy.

This approach also extends to the last family dramas, he says, an old helper: ‘I would go so far to say that it was a little lonely. Not just involved. ‘

He may be a reason to feel sympathetic with his wrong nephew Prince Harry, as his ‘reserve’ (not heir).

I was told that he had never been. However, he was always quietly gently, the only family member who greeted him in Balmoral after the death of Queen Elizabeth in September 2022. Over the years, he saw that his young siblings and their families have repeatedly passed in the toughing order.

Prince Andrew is still ten fourteen than Mother during the official successor (only female family members born after 2013 have equality with their brothers).

In December 2022, he became a state advisor, so he can now stop for the king if he is ineffective or abroad.

His little brother Andrew – and – in a hollow way – Prince Harry remains the other consultant and technically more senior in the role. But the truth is that King Charles trusts Anne more than ever. Except for his wife, Queen Camilla, the Princess is not an exaggeration to say that the Royal is the most reliable female figure in her life.

Not for anything, but after the participation of ceremonial events – effectively the most senior protection – did not make a golden bar while waiting. Like his brother, the princess is proud of the fact that it complies with the military uniforms worn more than 40 years ago.

But he asked about his beauty and health regime, a well -placed source snort: ‘There is not one! Princess is very lucky to have late mother’s magnificent skin. There are certainly genes in this respect.

‘But at the same time, he never comes out in the sun except that he is outside and when he or she or sails the property.

Sun layer? He couldn’t know what to do with him while sitting in a Sun Lounger!

The reason why the princess looks as good as she does is that she leads a really healthy life. Not because of Vanity, but just like to be active and busy, and it needs to be healthy and fit. He always lived in the same way.

The princess is watching her weight, but she doesn’t follow any enthusiasm diet.

“ Probably a professional athlete and the equestrian instinctive with him. Like the king, he never stops at lunch. ‘

Mother, for official engagement, a worker who is mastered without using her own hair-foot is a Chignon-and a small lipstick sweeping ‘never make up’.

“Maybe he could wear a small eye shadow for something like a state feast, but I never knew how to wear any makeup other than a little lipstick,” he says.

‘There is a million and something to do, and it doesn’t leave much time for this makeup.’

As for fashion? The princess is the queen of recycling, avoids the help of stylists and dresser, and rarely buys everything that is not British.

After announcing that he was engaged to his girlfriend Harriet Sperling last week, it is unlikely that his son Peter Phillip will buy a new suit for his wedding.

For someone who is commonly considered emotionless, it is noteworthy that Anne’s entire family is gathered to live on the Gloucestershire field.

Peter and his sister Zara Tindall live with young families in Gatcombe Park – like an aristocratic Brady Brunch. And I was told that Anne was a really practical grandmother.

This is an unexpected part of this extraordinary woman, who is thought to be the best queen of this country by some.