{"id":346933,"date":"2025-08-15T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346933\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:07:15","slug":"royals-mark-princess-annes-birthday-with-rare-family-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346933\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals mark Princess Anne’s birthday with rare family footage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Princess Anne celebrated a milestone birthday on August 15, with the Princess Royal turning 75. To mark the occasion, a new photo taken by John Swannell was shared on the official Royal Family social media accounts.<\/p>\n

It was a touching nod to tradition, as John Swannell had previously been chosen to take the Princess\u2019s 40th, 50th, and 60th birthday portraits.<\/p>\n

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In the photo, Anne is wearing a red, belted shirt dress with pearl jewellery as she poses in the garden of her Gatcombe Park<\/a> home in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

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That wasn\u2019t the only post shared in honour of the Princess Royal. Posting to the Royal Family\u2019s Instagram account on Thursday evening, a collection of vignettes and private family moments was shared with fans.<\/p>\n

The caption for the heart-warming post read, \u201cHappy memories ahead of The Princess\u2019s 75th birthday tomorrow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The footage – which one fan described as \u201cjust gorgeous\u201d in the comments – included tender moments of a young Queen Elizabeth II holding Princess Anne as a baby while Prince Philip carries a young King Charles over to the pair.<\/p>\n

Anne\u2019s grandparents, King George VI and the Queen Mother, are also seen doting over their family in the footage.<\/p>\n

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Later in the clips, there\u2019s cute moments of Anne as a toddler walking with her brother on board a ship, playing around in the gardens with her father and some of their dogs, and fostering her well-known love for horses from a very early age.<\/p>\n

In July of 2025, as an early celebration of the milestone birthday, the Royal Mint unveiled the first-ever official UK coin to honour Princess Anne, \u201cin recognition of her unwavering commitment to the Crown.\u201d<\/p>\n

In keeping with her hard-working reputation, the Princess decided against any large-scale parties or public commemorations. Instead, in June, she hosted more than 100 of her charities at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n

This is in keeping with one of the Princess’s alleged ‘birthday rules’ <\/a>which reportedly sees her only celebrate those that end in a zero and not in a five.<\/p>\n

Per reports, she\u2019ll spend this birthday sailing around the Western Isles of Scotland with her husband, Sir Timothy Laurence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Anne celebrated a milestone birthday on August 15, with the Princess Royal turning 75. To mark the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-346933","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\/115033646361732390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346933","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=346933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}