List of titles and honours of Anne, Princess Royal
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Anne, Princess Royal has received numerous titles, decorations, and honorary appointments as a member of the British royal family and the sister of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. Each is listed below; where two dates are shown, the first indicates the date of receiving the title or award (the title as Princess Anne of Edinburgh being given as from her birth) and the second indicates the date of its loss or renunciation.
15 August 1950 – 6 February 1952: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Edinburgh[1]
6 February 1952 – 15 November 1973: Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne
15 November 1973 – 13 June 1987: Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips[2]
13 June 1987 – present: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal[3]
From birth, thanks to letters patent issued by her grandfather George VI on 22 October 1948, Anne was a British princess with the style of Royal Highness and the territorial designation "of Edinburgh". Upon her mother's accession to the throne in 1952, the territorial designation was dropped and she became styled as "The Princess Anne". After she married Captain Mark Phillips in 1973, she was styled as "The Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips" until her mother created her Princess Royal, an appellation given only to the eldest daughter of the sovereign, on 13 June 1987. Anne is the seventh Princess Royal since the title was first granted to Mary, daughter of Charles I.[4] The previous holder was Anne's great-aunt Mary, daughter of George V. As the wife of Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, she is entitled to use the title of Lady Laurence, because the wife of a knight (Sir) may use the prefect Lady before the Knights surname. Although a princess who has been granted the title of HRH The Princess Royal will not customarily combine it with her style by marriage.[5]
With medals, Anne normally wears the breast stars of the Garter, Thistle, and Royal Victorian Order. When only one should be worn, she wears the Order of the Garter star, except in Scotland where the Order of the Thistle star is worn.
↑ As the child of a daughter of the monarch, Anne would not usually have been accorded the title of princess or the style Royal Highness. However, on 22 October 1948, letters patent were issued granting these to any children of Princess Elizabeth and Philip.
↑ Davies, Nicholas (2013). Elizabeth II: Behind Palace Doors. Random House. ISBN9781780578279. Until Elizabeth gave her the title, Anne's correct form of address had been a mouthful, 'Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips'.
↑ Davies, Nicholas (2013). Elizabeth II: Behind Palace Doors. Random House. ISBN9781780578279. Until Elizabeth gave her the title, Anne's correct form of address had been a mouthful, 'Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips'.
↑ "RAF Senior Appointments 15 August 2020". raf.mod.uk. Royal Air Force. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2020. Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal KG KT GCVO to be promoted Air Chief Marshal with effect from 15 August 2020.
↑ "Honours and awards"(PDF). New Zealand Gazette. No.23. 15 February 1990. p.446. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
↑ "Knights of the Orders of Chivalry". Debretts. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2012. Although HRH The Princess Royal and HRH Princess Alexandra are both female they are actually included with the Royal Knights Companions, and they bear the post-nominal letters KG (not LG).
↑ Brian, Hoey (2003). At home with the Queen: life through the keyhole of the Royal household. London: HarperCollins. p.172. ISBN0007126190. OCLC52395779.
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