{"id":335682,"date":"2025-08-11T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335682\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T12:16:10","slug":"princess-annes-75th-birthday-portrait-features-dramatic-hair-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/335682\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Anne\u2019s 75th Birthday Portrait Features Dramatic Hair Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A new portrait has been released by Buckingham Palace in honor of Princess Anne\u2019s upcoming milestone 75th birthday on August 15.<\/li>\n<li>In the photo, taken by royal photographer Chris Jackson, the Princess Royal stands alongside her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, in a photo taken at Windsor Castle at the French state banquet on July 8.<\/li>\n<li>In the photo, Anne swapped her signature bouffant style\u2014a look she\u2019s worn for 50 years\u2014for a chignon, capturing her dramatic hair transformation in an official capacity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Buckingham Palace has released a never-before-seen photo of <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-anne-hair-transformation-50-years-8743906\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Anne<\/a> to mark her milestone 75th birthday on August 15\u2014and it features the Princess Royal\u2019s first hair transformation in 50 years.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The daughter of <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/queen-elizabeth-birthday-royal-family-private-celebration-8636612\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth<\/a> and <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/queen-elizabeth-last-photo-prince-philip-connection-8715465\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Philip<\/a> is photographed alongside her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence in the photo, taken at the French state dinner at Windsor Castle on July 8. The Princess Royal has declined to celebrate her birthday officially\u2014including a party or an official interview to mark the occasion\u2014and instead will go sailing with her husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/royal-family\/2025\/08\/08\/princess-anne-photograph-75th-birthday-timothy-laurence\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a> reported. The only celebrations the down-to-earth royal agreed to partake in was inviting members of 300 of her charity patronages to Buckingham Palace for a royal engagement, where she spoke of \u201cthe pleasure I get from visiting and finding out a bit more about what you do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence and Princess Anne in her official 75th birthday portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Jackson\/Getty Images for Buckingham Palace<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cI\u2019m not here because this was my choice,\u201d she later said at the reception. \u201cYou very kindly asked me to become patron of your organizations, so it\u2019s an honor for me to have all of you here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Long known as the hardest working member of the royal family, Anne\u2019s official birthday portrait was taken by veteran royal photographer Chris Jackson and was released on August 8, exactly one month after it was taken. At the French state banquet, where <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/king-charles-rugby-team-hug-8711449\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> and <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/queen-camilla-yacht-boldest-look-yet-11787926\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Camilla<\/a> hosted President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron, Anne swapped her signature bouffant hairstyle\u2014one she\u2019s worn for five decades\u2014for a chignon. Atop her head was the Festoon Tiara, which she received as a gift in 1973, the year she turned 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/princess-anne-sparkles-new-tiara-portrait-husband-75th-birthday-festivities-begin-11787717\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> reported.\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Anne and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence at the French State Banquet.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Last summer, after a horse-related injury left the Princess Royal with a concussion and hospitalized for five days, she spoke of her new lease on life: \u201cIt just reminds you, shows you\u2014you never quite know, something [happens] and you might not recover,\u201d she said, adding, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c87d34rq541o\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, \u201cYou are sharply reminded that every day is a bonus, really.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Anne on May 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Of her signature bouffant hairstyle\u2014which she debuted in 1973 and has kept ever since\u2014Anne said in the 2020 documentary Princess Royal: Anne at 70 that it only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/news\/princess-annes-75th-birthday-portrait-reveals-hair-makeover\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201ctakes me 10 or 15 minutes\u201d<\/a> to do\u2014which is perhaps why she\u2019s kept it in her rotation for so long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new portrait has been released by Buckingham Palace in honor of Princess Anne\u2019s upcoming milestone 75th birthday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-335682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115010088966060248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}