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Privacy NoticePrincess Anne once shared her alternative career dream if she wasn’t in the Royal Family in a throwback interview with her then-husband Mark Phillips. Chatting to Michael Parkinson in 1983, she corrected him by saying: “I think it was more precise than that. I was going to earn my living and as I’ve got an HGV licence I don’t mind spending time on one’s own driving.” She added: “I think you could run your own life that way. You could put in a lot of hours for a period of time then leave yourself with a bit of time at the end of it. It wouldn’t be such a bad way of doing it.” In another recently resurfaced interview, the Princess Royal revealed the stringent rules the royals must adhere to while working. In the 1981 documentary ‘Princess Anne: Her Working Life’, Anne, now 74, explained the importance of maintaining a “[You must be] nice and bright and cheerful, [even if you may not necessarily] feel like it.”
Princess Anne is sometimes described as the “hardest-working” royal
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The mother of Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall also delved into the specifics of choosing companions for Royal engagements. Accompanied often by her husband Sir Timothy Laurence, she stated, “On official engagements, what you require is a companion,” reports the Express. “It’s no good to me if then, you know, you get somebody turning up in the morning looking like death and furious..” She elaborated: “And you know, ratty about life and non-communicative, and when they go out on a trip, they’re standing in a corner looking glum and bored.
Anne once said she would have liked to be a lorry driver
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“I mean that’s no help at all to anyone, least of all to the people at the other end, never mind to me.” Anne has been praised as the most diligent royal, clocking an impressive 457 official public engagements in 2023 alone with the Royal Family. Story SavedYou can find this story in  My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Follow OK! MagazineFacebookTwitterCommentMore OnZara TindallDocumentaryRoyal FamilyPrincess Anne
