The return to grace of Princess Anne
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THE BUCKINGHAM LETTER. At 72, Anne is the right-hand man of her brother, King Charles III, and the darling of the Windsors. Portrait of the new favorite.
From our correspondent in London, Marc Roche
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La court of Charles III now his vice-queen. The space of the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of her successor, a new favorite has been dubbed: Princess Anne. A distinction that shakes up, protocolically and organically, the hierarchy of the royal family and gives the sister of the new monarch a chance to transform into destiny what until then was limited to a nice career. Now, Her Royal Highness, 72, is the first of the Windsor clan after hard core Charles, William and their wives.
The Princess Royal – that’s her official title – played a pivotal role in the death of Elizabeth II. Anne was alongside her older brother the only member of the line to be present at the queen’s bedside when she breathed her last at the castle…
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