Princess Anne, sister of King Charles III, “is fine,” confirmed her husband, Tim Laurence, after visiting her in the hospital where she is recovering “from minor injuries and a shock” to her head after an accident. caused by a horse.
“She is fine,” said the spouse in front of the Bristol hospital, located in the west of England, where the princess has been admitted since Sunday afternoon. “She is recovering well,” she reiterated.
Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that the 73-year-old princess had suffered “minor injuries and shock following an incident in Gatcombe Park.”
Gatcombe Park, located in the county of Gloucestershire (southwest England), is the country home of Princess Anne, who is a great fan of horse riding.
It is believed that the incident was caused by a horse that hit her while she was walking within the protected perimeter of the farm, where equestrian events are held.
For that reason, the princess’s official engagements scheduled for this week have been cancelled.
The princess royal, as she is called in her country, is a high-level equestrian and even represented her country at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976. In fact, she is the most active member of the royal family with hundreds of engagements at the time. anus. She has two children, Peter and Zara, from her first marriage to jockey Mark Philipps. And after her divorce in 1992, she remarried nine months later to Commander Timothy Laurence, Queen Elizabeth’s former equerry.
