BEEN THERE, DONE THAT

THERE are many constants about the queen’s only daughter. Her hairstyle, for one, unchanged over the decades. The fact that she’s happiest either in gumboots striding across the moors with her dogs, or in jodhpurs atop one of her beloved horses.

Down-to-earth, no-nonsense, unfussy, content to fly under the radar – that’s Princess Anne.

So it was a surprise to many when the Princess Royal recently popped up on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine ahead of her 70th birthday in August.

The cover image is of a winsome 19-year-old Anne, wavy locks tumbling over her bare shoulders, in a picture taken in 1969 by Lord Snowdon, the renowned photographer who was then