Princess Anne goes Christmas shopping in Oxford Street during her lunch hour. She is having a six week crash course in French at a language school in Oxford Street. Picture shows Princess Anne walking unnoticed by Christmas shopping crowds in Oxford Street

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Northampton. Princess Anne, recent subject of rumours about prospective motherhood, was giving no encouragement to such speculation in her activities today. Here she is competing in the cross country at horse trials at East Hannan, Northamptonshire

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A 1971 library picture Princess Anne with Captain Eric Grounds, The Queen's Dragoon Guards, who will be groomsman at the wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in November

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ANNE/93

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Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne, overrolls a car as she drives a chieftain tank during her visit to the Berlin-based 1420 the Hussars. The Princess arrived in West Berlin today for a two day visit

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All smiles, Princess Anne, seated between her husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and Fiji's Governor-General, Ratu Sir George Cakobau, applauds traditional Fijian dance items which were part of the entertainment items following Fijian ceremonies of welcome at the National Stadium in Suva today

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London. Princess Anne, under guidance from a senior British Army officer, fires a Stirling submachine gun during her visit to the 14th/20th Hussars at Paderborn, West Germany on 31 October. Wearing an off-white, high crowned Spanish style hat, with an army combat jacket, the Princess fired first from the shoulder, with two bullseyes out of ten rounds, (left), and then from the hip she scored eleven hits from twenty rounds. The Princess is Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment

Broadcast Date: 7 November 1969

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Paris. Princess Anne of Great Britain with Paris mayor wife Bernadette Chirac, Tuesday night, prior to the premier of the London Contemporary Theater at the Theatre de la Ville

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Photographer: Cardenas

The Princess Royal after her ride in the Newton Williams Handicap Chase at Hereford today, when her horse Cnoc Na Cuille gave her a bloody nose at the first fence as his head struck the royal jockey's face. However, the pair recovered to finish in fourth place

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Her Royal Highness Princess Anne will be 28 on 15 August 1978. She is here seen wearing a cream lace evening dress, with a sapphire and diamond brooch

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Photographer: Snowdon

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne will be 28 on 15 August 1978. She is here seen wearing a cream lace evening dress, with a sapphire and diamond brooch

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Photographer: Snowdon

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ANNE/54

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Princess Anne horseriding at an event, onlookers include Prince Charles (mid-photo)

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Leighterton, Gloucestershire. Princess Anne , on her 10th wedding anniversary, out hunting with the Beaufort hounds

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ITN Reference: ROYAL/ANNE/43

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Princess and the gipsy. Princess Anne chats to Mr Frank Cumberland-Wright, 39, with Jack Russell dog Badger listening in, at the White Hill traveller's site near Amersham. The Princess toured three gipsy sites in Buckinghamshire in her capacity as President of the Save the Children Fund, meeting travellers, local leaders, council and fund workers

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Princess Anne, surrounded by gipsy families today when she visited the White Hill site, near Amersham, Bucks, in her capacity ad president of Save the Children Fund

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Atlanta. Princess Anne accompanied by Georgia Governor Joe Frank Harris is greeted by Mayor and Mrs Andrew Young as she is presented a bouquet of flowers by Louise Allen, 10, upon the Princess's arrival at a fund raising Garden party on behalf of the British Olympic Association

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Photographer: David Tulis

Bangkok, Thailand. Thai Princess Chulabhorn chats with Princess Anne shortly after handing her a bouquet of flowers on arrival at Bangkok airport for a three-day private visit as guests of the Thai King and Queen

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Bangkok, Thailand. Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips, share laugh with British Ambassador to Thailand Peter Tripp and his wife before the dinner reception at British Embassy in Bangkok

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Bangladesh. Princess Anne today visited the project of Save the Children Fund at Khulna, 200 miles away from Dhaka. Princess was given a warm reception when she arrived there. Princess was very happy to see the work at the Save the Children Fund project. She has visited three different projects of Save the Children Fund there

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Hereford. A crowd of police, security agents, soldiers and photographers watches Princess Anne leaving the Scorpion tank after she drove the reconnaissance vehicle during an exercise. She wears a colonel's battle dress. At right is Lieutenant Colonel T G Williams, Commanding Officer of the 14th/20th King's Hussars

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Beirut. Princess Anne meets with Mrs Amin Gemayel, President Gemayel, Lebanese Prime Minister Chafic Wazzah and Speaker of the House Kamel et Asaad at the Presidential Palace. Princess Anne is here on a one day visit as President of Save the Children Fund

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Photographer: Claude Salhani

Beirut, Lebanon. Walk with the president. Britain's Princess Anne speaks to Lebanese President Amin Gemayel as they walk through the hallway at the Presidential palace in Baabda Friday. Gemayel met with Princess Anne and they had lunch together at the Palace. Princess Anne arrived in Beirut early Friday morn on a one day unofficial visit

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Beirut. Princess Anne passes in front of two Lebanese boys dressed in the British Royal Guard uniform as she visits a school in Bourj Barajneh. The Princess who is President of "Save the Children Fund" is on a one day visit to Lebanon. She later met with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel

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Photographer: Claude Salhani

Princess Anne receives a cheque for 'Save the Children'

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Belfast. Her Royal Highness Princess Anne (left) talks with the crew of the trawler 'Willing Lad' during her visit to Portavogie Harbour, County Down this afternoon

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Princess Anne seen leading 'Mark' a baby calf at Enniskillen Agricultural Farm

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Belfast one. Princess Anne with Group Capt. Jeremy Jones at the Hillsborough House ceremony

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Princess Anne chats to Winston Green prison wardens during visit to the prison in Birmingham

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Photographer: Ron Bell

Birmingham. Princess Anne presenting the Major Youth Caring Award to Alan Allman and Carl Sherwin of Gateshead Music Collective, Tyne and Wear at Birmingham Pebble Mill Studios

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Birmingham. Princess Anne chats to Winston Green prison wardens during visit to the prison in Birmingham

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Photographer: Ron Bell

Birmingham. Princess Anne in the laundry of Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, where she chatted to Paddy Burke (27), from Bell Green, Coventry, serving three months for criminal damage

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Photographer: Ron Bell

Princess Anne chats to a relaxing group in the Young Offenders' Recreation Room, during today's visit to the Winston Green Prison, Birmingham

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Photographer: Ron Bell

Birmingham. Princess Anne chats to a pupil at Yew Tree Primary School in Birmingham, during her visit today

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Bournemouth, Union Conference. Princess Anne, dressed in a grey suit and matching hat, enjoying a moment of humour during today's annual conference of the Inland Revenue Staff Federation at Bournemouth, where she addressed delegates on the work of the Save the Children Fund of which she is President

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Her Royal Highness Princess Anne in action at the controls of an MCV 80 at Warminster today

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Her Royal Highness Princess Anne tries her hand at firing the army's new rifle (the SA80) at Warminster today. Helped by Private Steven Goodwin from Derby

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Her Royal Highness Princess Anne in helmet and goggles prepares to drive off in an MCV 80 at Warminster, Wiltshire

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Calcutta. Princess Anne receives a white scarf offered to her by a Tibetan refugee woman as she is welcomed at Chandragiri village in India's Orissa State where Tibetan refugees were resettled in 1962. As president of Save the Children Fund she visited to see the projects aided by the fund

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Calcutta. Princess Anne of the UK fixes her hair clip as an Indian girl circles a tray containing a coconut, and earthen lamp and scent in front of her face to welcome her to the Indian way as she arrives at Sadanandapur Village in Orissa State

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Calcutta. Princess Anne sheds a beaming smile on her arrival at Calcutta airport. She begins a ten-day tour of India

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Calcutta. Princess Anne accepts the garland of warm welcome presented to her by Indian children at the Child in Need Institute on the outskirts of Calcutta today. Her Royal Highness continues her ten-day trip throughout India

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Calcutta. Tibetan children in their traditional dress sing "Tashi Delek" (welcome) and dance waving scarves as Princess Anne arrives at Chandragiri village in India's Orris State for a day's visit

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Lake Casitas California. Meeting the Princess Royal… [Illegible]

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Calveston, Texas. Princess Anne accepts a key to the city from Calveston Mayor Pro-Tem Jan Coggeshall during tour of the city

Agency: UPI

Photographer: Walt Prerck

Bogata, Colombia. Princess Anne poses with Colombia's President Misael Pastrana and Mrs Pastrana before dinner at the Presidential Palace Saturday night. Captain Mark Phillips suffered from a mild viral infection and did not attend

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Bogata, Colombia. The dancing Princess. Smiling Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips dance in public for the first time since they married last month during a charity ball here last night. Captain Phillips seemed to be recovered from a gastric condition

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