Felixstowe. Princess Anne wears an orange boiler suit at the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk, as she climbs a ship-to-shore gantry crane to view the Port from more than 100ft above ground level

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Photographer: Ron Bell

Stonehouse, England. Princess Anne chats with a group of schoolchildren at the Park Junior School at Stonehouse near Stroud. The Princess was opening the school in an area of Britain where the disease meningitis has reached epidemic proportions

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Princess Anne (36 today) spent part of her birthday working on the Cross Country Cross of the Croft Original British Open Horse Trials championship at her Gatcombe Park home in Gloucestershire

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Gatcombe Park. Princess Anne tidies up her garden at Gatcombe Park, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, before the start of the Croft Original British Open Horse Trials taking place there today, her 36th birthday

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Princess Anne rides her first winner, Gulfland, to victory in the Mommessin Amateur riders' Stakes at Redcar

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Princess Anne and her dogs coping with the rain at the Croft Original Horse Trials at Dauntsey Park, near Chippenham

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Toronto, Canada. Princess Anne, wearing a headband, was all smiles for the crowd who greeted her during a morning tour of Toronto's harbour-front. The Princess is currently on a six day tour that will take her across the country

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Photographer: Mike Blake

Princess Anne, her children, Master Peter Phillips and Miss Zara Phillips, and family pets, were among the interested spectators attending today's TI Group Windsor Horse Trials in Windsor Great Park

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Princess Anne on Salmon Run before the 6.15 at Cheltenham today

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Cheltenham. Princess Anne caked in mud after riding unplaced Salmon Run in the 6.15 at Cheltenham today in the Amateur Riders Association Run National Hunt flat race

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Cheltenham. A question of identity. How many viewers recognised this mud-splattered jockey as Princess Anne when it was screened on 'A Question of Sport'

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London. Princess Anne talks with Patsy Kensit, star of the movie "Absolute Beginners" at the Royal Premiere of the film. At the centre is Mandy Rice-Davies, who also appears in the film and was at the centre of the Profumo Affair in the 1960s

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Photographer: Roy Letkey

Princess Anne visits Rio's famous statue of Christ the Redeemer

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London. Princess Anne, President, Save the Children Fund, surrounded by local children as she visits the Westway gypsy site in London

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London. Princess Anne at the weekend riding Well Wisher on the beach at Brean Down near Burnham-on-Sea when she and husband Captain Mark Phillips exercised horses from trainer David Nicholson's yard

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Inhambane, Mozambique. Princess Anne who is here partly as President of Save the Children Fund, visited one of their projects in the central town of Inhambane. Some of the children on the ground have become orphans due to the continual guerrilla activity in the area

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Photographer: Etienne Werner

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Cheltenham. Jockeying for position, Princess Anne takes the bend ahead of Lord Oaksey in the charity Hodgson McCreery Celebrity Wheelchair Race, fourth race on the card at Cheltenham. It was Spinal Injuries Association Race Day and the two furlongs round the enclosures wheelchair event was won by Suzanne Dando

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London. Princess Anne listening to the Queen's Speech in the Chamber of the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament. The Princess was the only member of the Queen's immediate family to attend the ceremony

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London. Princess Anne who shared the coach with the Queen, leaving Buckingham Palace, London for today's State Opening of Parliament

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York. Princess Anne steps down from a British Rail Inter-City high speed 125 locomotive at York station. The Princess drove the train along York railway station

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Princess Anne in happy mood in Liverpool today which she visited despite the trouble which again plagued the Toxteth area of the city during the night

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Princess Anne with husband Captain Mark Phillips watched by Royal detective at Tetbury Horse Trials

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London. Princess Anne to race at Goodwood. Library picture of Princess Anne, who is to ride in an amateur riders event , The Oxo Stakes, at Goodwood, after walking the course before the first race

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London. President of The Save the Children Fund, Princess Anne meeting comedian Billy Connolly and actress Jane Asher at today's launch of The Children's Book at Guildhall, in London, sales of which is hoped to boost by £150,000 for the fund's Famine in Africa Appeal

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London. Princess Anne on radio phone-in. Princess Anne at the BBC's Broadcasting House in London today where she took part in the Radio 4 phone-in programme "Tuesday Call". She is seen with the programme's presenter Sue MacGregor

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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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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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Royal Windsor Horse Show. Miss Zara Phillips, riding up on her mother, Princess Anne, for a grandstand view of today's Royal Windsor Horse Show. Zara's grandfather, The Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Michael of Kent were among the competitors

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

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Princess Anne receives a cheque for 'Save the Children'

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Edinburgh, Scotland. A new portrait of Princess Anne, Colonel-in-Chief of Royal Scots, which was unveiled at the Royal Scots regimental museum in Edinburgh today. By June Mendoza, it shows the princess in evening dress, wearing the regimental brooch and her pipe banner in the background

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London. Princess Anne tries a high energy biscuit, of the kind sent out as relief supplies to famine and drought stricken Ethiopia, when she visited the Save the Children Fund Headquarters in South London

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London. Princess Anne, President of Save the Children Fund, chats to chorister Paul Miles-Kingston, 13, and pop singer Alvin Stardust, whose concerts have helped raise money for the charity. The Princess was visiting the charity's South London headquarters to personally thank some of the people who have helped raise almost £23 million for family relief

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Epsom, Surrey. Princess Anne up on Against The Grain rounding Tattenham Corner at Epsom in the Farriers Invitation Private Sweepstakes, making her debut as a flat race jockey riding for the charity Riding for the Disabled

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Epsom, Surrey. Princess Anne in the paddock at Epsom today before saddling up and making her debut as a flat race jockey in the Farriers Invitation Private Sweepstakes

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Epsom, Surrey. Champion jockey Lester Piggott makes a presentation to Princess Anne after she came fourth in her debut as a flat race jockey at Epsom today. She steered her mount Against The Grain into fourth place in The Farriers Initiation Private Sweepstakes, a celebrity charity race, which was won by Elain Mellor, wife of trainer Sam

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Epsom, England. Princess Anne dressed in horse race gear and colours in action here today during her first ever ride in a horse race, the Farriers Invitation Private Sweepstake over a one-and half mile Derby course. The Princess came fourth in the race to No-U-Turn ridden by Elain Mellor

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Epsom, Surrey. Trainer David Nicholson leads Princess Anne and entourage round the Tattenham Corner at Epsom racetrack today when she walked the course before making her debut tomorrow

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London. The Princess was his guest on Friday 22 March on BBC1

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London. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother with Princess Anne and Princess Diana, the Princess of Wales, when they attended the London Royal Film Performance Premier at the Leicester Square Odeon on Monday night of the film 'A Passage to India'. Princess Diana wears an off-the-shoulder emerald chiffon dress and Princess Anne wears a Victorian-style dress of Oyster silk complete with frills and pearls

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Photographer: Bob Dear