A ringside seat with Princess Anne to mark her 70th birthday
On a chilly winter’s afternoon I am standing next to Princess Anne as we watch a horses’s head being sawn off. Unlike me, she doesn’t blink an eye. We’re at Surrey University’s veterinary school where we’re being ‘treated’ to a post-mortem demonstration by students. Elegant, willowy, and with coltish legs, her hair is ruthlessly sculpted … Read more