The Princess Royal

Name: Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise

Status: Princess of the United Kingdom
Style: Her Royal Highness
Title: The Princess Royal
Post-nominal: KG, KT, GCVO, QSO, GCL, CD, FRS

What those suffixes mean:

1. Knight of the Garter (since 1994)
2. Knight of the Thistle (since 2000)
3. Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, of which the Princess is
Grand Master (since 2007)
4. Queen’s Service Order (since 1990)
5. Grand Companion of Logohu (Royal Chief since 2005)
6. Fellow of the Royal Society (elected 1987)1

Education
Her education began under the guidance of royal governess Catherine Peebles at
Buckingham Palace. Her brother Prince Charles was her only classmate. When
Prince Charles went away to Cheam School, two girls whose grandfathers were
senior courtiers were brought into the palace schoolroom. These were Susan
Babington-Smith and Caroline Hamilton. According to the royal biographer Brian
Hoey, the Princess was never too fond of Miss Peebles. ‘Mispy,’ as Miss Peebles
was known, was intensely attached to Prince Charles, but her relationship with
Princess Anne might be described as lukewarm at best. The next phase of her
education was at Benenden, in Hemsted Park, Kent. Jordanian Princess Basma bit
Talal was a contemporary of the Princess at the school. Her friend Victoria Legge-
Bourke was a year ahead. Victoria became one of Princess Anne’s constant
companions in life--a stalwart lady-in-waiting. Victoria’s niece is Tiggy

1 "TRANSAID PATRON HRH THE PRINCESS ROYAL THANKS ...." 31 Oct. 2017,
http://forwardermagazine.com/industry-news/transaid-patron-hrh-the-princess-royal-thanks-industry-for-
creating-a-sustainable-model-for-road-safety/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/KrqCK
(néeLegge-Bourke) Pettifer.2 (Tiggy’s mother, and Victoria’s sister, Shân Legge-
Bourke, was also a lady-in-waiting in the royal court.)

Of Princess Anne’s five years at Benenden, Brian Hoey writes:

As it happened, Anne had few difficulties apart from mathematics, a subject

in which she had little interest, and as Benenden at that time did not have a
particularly outstanding academic record anyway she fitted in as an
average pupil, which is what she — and the Queen — wanted.
……
At the end of her five years at Benenden the Princess emerged with two A-
level passes in history and geography. Although this result was not brilliant,
at that time it was enough to have gained a place at one of the lesser
universities. Princess Anne decided not to apply, however, and today she
still thinks she was right. 'You must remember that girls did not have as
many career opportunities in those days, and in my case there were added
difficulties obviously, so I think I was right in deciding not to apply for
university at the time.' She also left Benenden with one other distinction. She
was the only girl in the school who always had something left over from her
£ 2 a term pocket money, and indeed still describes herself as being 'mean
with money' as the result of her upbringing by a canny Scottish nanny.

2 About the Princess Royal, Royal UK. Archived: http://archive.is/sQFeA

Equestrian Career
1. Won the gold medal at the European Eventing Championships, 1971
○ First member of the British royal family to win a European title
2. BBC Sports Personality of the Year, 1971 (Picture)
3. Rough times at the 1973 Europeans: “In 1973 in Kiev (USSR), Princess
Anne fell dramatically, as did several others, at the notorious second fence.
This was a massive spread over a ditch approached on a downhill stride.”
○ See video from the AP archive: https://youtu.be/DUUp5jCC__c
4. Won individual silver and team silver at the European Eventing
Championships, 1975 (Pictures: 1, 2)
5. The International Equestrian Federation (1986-1994)

The Olympics
1. Joined the British eventing team at the Olympic Games in Montreal, 1976
○ First member of the British royal family to go to the Olympics
2. Became a member of the International Olympic Committee, 1988
3. IF Representative of the Eligibility Commission, 1990-1994
4. Director of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and
Paralympic Games (London 2012)
5. Chair of the Nominations Committee, 2014-2015
6. IOC Members Election, 2015-Present

Marriages and family

1. Captain Mark Phillips, Chairman of the Festival of British Eventing at
Gatcombe Park (married the Princess in November 1973, separated in
September 1989 and divorced by decree nisi after two years)
a. Peter Phillips, managing director of SEL UK and event director of the
Festival of British Eventing
i. He married Autumn Kelly in 2008. They divorced in 2021.
They have two daughters:
1. Savannah Phillips
2. Isla Phillips
b. Zara Tindall (married Mike Tindall, 2011)
i. Mia Grace Tindall (born 2014)
ii. Lena Elizabeth Tindall (born 2018)
iii. Lucas Philip Tindall (born 2021)
 2. Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence

About Sir Tim

1. Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
2. Companion of the Most Honourable Order of Bath (CB)
3. Companion of the Star of Melanesia (CSM)
4. Personal Aide de Camp -- abbreviated after his name as ADC(P)
5. Chairman of English Heritage
6. Vice Chairman, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
7. Chairman, The Major Projects Association
8. Member, the Council of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (since 2004)
9. Trustee, Royal National Lifeboat Institution (since 2011)
10. Deputy Chair, Royal National Lifeboat Institution (since July 2017)

About Peter
Peter is one of those admirable individuals who, it seems, has never gone through
an “I don’t know what I’m doing” phrase. He has always known exactly who he is
and what he is going to do, and he has proceeded full speed ahead without any fear
whatsoever. He played rugby at Gordonstoun School, representing Scottish schools
and gaining his first “cap” as a blindside flanker in a match against France in 1995.
From Gordonstoun to Exeter to study sports science, then to a string of jobs (never
a gap in employment) first in sports hospitality, then banking for awhile, and
finally a big shot position promoting glamorous events for Sports Entertainment
Limited UK. His company was contracted to promote the Patron’s Lunch on the
Mall in June 2016, celebrating his 90-year-old grandmother The Queen’s
patronage of over 600 charities. SEL UK was paid £750,000 for the contract and
that ended up being problematic since the event failed to raise nearly that amount.3
Moreover, the event was criticized for the high cost of tickets that were sold to the
charity workers.4

About Zara
It is often written that Zara was named for its Greek biblical meaning “Bright as
the Dawn.” Indeed, Princess Anne told Brian Hoey that her brother Charles gave

3 About the Princess Royal, Royal UK. Archived: http://archive.is/sQFeA

4 About the Princess Royal, Royal UK. Archived: http://archive.is/sQFeA
her the idea and that neither she nor Mark had heard of the name before. However,
Hoey points out that, in fact, the lady-in-waiting Shân Legge-Bourke (sister-in-law
of Victoria and mother of Tiggy) had named her daughter Zara. Tiggy’s sister,
Zara, was born in 1966. Going by Greek meanings, it is fitting that Anne’s children
are respectively a ‘rock’5 and a “rather sudden and positive”6 ray of sunshine.
Peter is stable and grounded, just like a rock. Zara soars high like an eagle, shines
bright like the sun. They are different, but also the same, respectively holding the
seemingly diametrically opposed but oddly synchronous facts of their mother: the
solid-as-a-rock, sensible princess and the high-achieving Olympic goddess.

Zara is, of course, a two-sided second generation Olympian. Her chef d’equipe
father was Anne’s teammate at the Europeans in 1971. He also has two Olympic
team medals (1972 and 1988) and is a four-time winner of the Badminton Horse
Trials7.

In a fantastic retelling of history that no one could have foreseen, Zara herself won
the European Eventing title in 2006 and was subsequently named BBC Personality
of the Year8. Yet it was only the first chapter for Zara. At the 2012 Olympic Games
in London, Zara carried the Olympic torch astride her legendary horse, Toytown,
and went on to help her team win the silver medal. And even that was just Chapter
2. She finished second at Luhmühlen in 20139 and achieved team silver (for
eventing) at the World Equestrian Games in 2014. Zara gave birth to a daughter the
same year. She suffered a miscarriage in 2016; however, near the end of 2016, it

5 "Transaid – HRH The Princess Royal thanks industry for creating a ...." 16 Oct. 2017,
https://www.fsdf.org.uk/business-news/transaid-hrh-princess-royal-thanks-industry-creating-sustainable-
model-road-safety/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/4otDy
6 "The Princess Royal marks 25 years of the Carers Trust | The Royal ...." 10 Feb. 2016,
https://www.royal.uk/princess-royal-marks-25-years-carers-trust. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived:
http://archive.is/urfrN
7 "The Princess Royal marks 25 years of the Carers Trust | The Royal ...." 10 Feb. 2016,
https://www.royal.uk/princess-royal-marks-25-years-carers-trust. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived:
http://archive.is/urfrN
8 "Princess Anne is the best of us: tough, practical, hardworking, dutiful ...." 15 Aug. 2015,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/11804417/Princess-Anne-is-the-best-of-us-tough-
practical-hardworking-dutiful-and-undemonstrative.html. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived:
http://archive.is/6IZM6
9 "Exclusive: Elaine Bunting is invited aboard Princess ... - Yachting World." 6 Dec. 2014,
http://www.yachtingworld.com/features/exclusive-elaine-bunting-invited-aboard-princess-annes-new-
royal-yacht-rustler-44-remote-harbour-scotland-60797. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived:
http://archive.is/JtItu
was announced that she is pregnant again and expecting the arrival in the spring of
201710. In the long run, we might say it was just a speed bump in the course. Zara
isn’t showing signs of slowing down. She was as optimistic and enthusiastic as
ever when she sat down for an interview in Country Life magazine in August 2017.
Of her horse High Kingdom, she said: “He’s such a dude. He’s put together like a
weird little pony, but he’s a proper worker.”11
Zara Tindall’s eventing results: http://archive.is/wXdWz

Zara Tindall’s charity represenation: Her first patronage was the Club 18-24 at
Cheltenham Racecourse. She was president of the club.12 13 Her charity work
evolved over time to organizing bicycle polo fundraisers for research into spinal
cord injuries.14 15 Her patronage of the Catwalk Trust goes back to 2005.16 17 18

Residences
1. Clarence House (early childhood)
2. Buckingham Palace (past)
3. Hemstead House at Benenden School (from 1963 to 1968)
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practical-hardworking-dutiful-and-undemonstrative.html. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived:
http://archive.is/6IZM6
11 "HRH Princess Anne visits the RVC - Royal Veterinary College."
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news/chancellor-160911. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/F4qii
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https://www.royal.uk/princess-royal-celebrates-30-years-st-john-ambulance-cadets. Accessed 21 Jan.
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at-60.html. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/gHJGa
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darling-of-the-royal-family/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/UWsWl
 4. Oak Grove House, Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst (first marital
home, with Captain Mark Phillips)
5. St. James’s Palace (current)
6. Gatcombe Park (current, since 1977)

Chancellor
1. Chancellor of the University of London19
2. Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh (201120 - in succession of her
father Prince Philip)21

Patron
1. Save the Children (president from 1970, patron from 2016)
2. Sense International
3. The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA -- since 2003, in
succession of the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother)
4. CanTRA (since 1986)
5. The Riding for the Disabled Association of Australia
6. The English Lacrosse Association
7. The Scottish Rugby Union
8. The Northern Lighthouse Board
9. Opportunity International UK (patron since 1998)
10. Women in Science and Engineering (WISE, patron since 2000)
11.Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO, patron since 2005)22 23
12. The Royal National Children’s Foundation (RNCF, patron since 200324) /
and since 2017 patron of the new merged charity RNCF / SpringBoard25

19 "BAFTA's Royal Connections | BAFTA." 14 Jun. 2012, http://www.bafta.org/about/organisation/baftas-

royal-connections. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
20 "The Princess Royal and David Jason at BAFTA awards Pictures | Getty ...."
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-princess-royal-president-of-the-british-academy-of-
film-news-photo/828674742. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
21 "La Princesse Anne aux sports d'hiver Pictures | Getty Images."
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dhonneur-de-news-photo/558660823. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
22 Hoey, Brian. Anne: The Private Princess Revealed (p. 167). CB Creative Books. Kindle Edition.
23 "Trustees and Senior Staff - St Andrews First Aid."
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24 "Scotch Beef Club - Scotch Beef & Lamb." https://www.scotchkitchen.com/scotch-beef-club. Accessed
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id=6200&pn=0. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
 13. UKSA (UK Sailing, patron since 1992)26 27
14. The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
15. The Oxford Farming Conference
16. Aerospace Bristol
17. Whitley Fund for Nature
18. The National Museum of the Royal Navy
19. The College of Occupational Therapists
20. The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh
(since 1990)
21. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine
22. The Restorative Justice Council
23. St Andrew’s First Aid (since 2003)28
24. The Beef Shorthorn Cattle Society
25. Townswomen’s Guilds29 30 31
26. The Basic Skills Agency32 33 34 (affiliated with the EU’s National Learning
& Work Institute)35

26 "Princess Anne - HakubaPhotography - WordPress.com." 14 Apr. 2013,

https://hakubaphotography.wordpress.com/tag/princess-anne/. Accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
27 "Princess Anne in the Scottish Borders: traditional weaving & disabled ...." 11 Oct. 2017,
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28 "The only way to keep social affairs in order | HeraldScotland." 18 Dec. 1992,
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12575809.The_only_way_to_keep_social_affairs_in_order/.
Accessed 21 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/KcGZJ
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31 "Flashback Friday: The Year Jane Holderness-Roddam Changed ...." 27 Jan. 2017,
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“Closely involved with the creation of”
1. The Princess Royal Trust for Carers (1991, now The Carers Trust)36 37
2. Riders Health for the Carers Trust38
3. Transaid39 40 41
4. The Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park
5. The Princess Royal Training Awards42 (associated with the Basic Skills
Training Agency)43

President
1. The Save the Children Fund (since 1970)
2. The Carers Trust44
3. The Royal Society for the Arts
4. The British Olympic Association
5. The City and Guilds of London Institute (succeeded her father Prince Philip
as president)
6. The Riding for the Disabled Association
7. The International Equestrian Federation (1986-1994)
8. The Royal Yachting Association
9. The Civil Guide Association
10.The National Equine Forum
36 "Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall discloses miscarriage | UK news ...." 24 Dec. 2016,
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kingdom-dude-164550. Accessed 22 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/7TAcP
38 "HRH The Princess Royal opens the VSO office in Kingston - YouTube." 10 Feb. 2014,
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41 "HRH Princess Anne - Boarding School Partnerships."
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2018.
 11. UK Fashion and Textile Association
12. The English Speaking Union
13. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences
14. Recreation Branch
15. BAFTA (in succession of her father, Prince Philip, and the 1st Earl
Mountbatten of Burma, she was president from 1973 until 200045, preceding
first Lord Attenborough and finally her nephew Prince William, Duke of
Cambridge)46
16. The Scotch Beef Club47 48 49 50
17. The British Amateur Athletic Board (in succession for her father the Duke
of Edinburgh)
18. The Mission to Seafarers51 52 53 54

St John Ambulance Brigade

The Princess holds the title of Commandant-in-Chief (Youth)55 for the St. John
Ambulance Brigade. Ever since Queen Victoria granted the Royal Charter to the
Order of St John, the Reigning Monarch serves as Sovereign Head of the Order of

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2018.
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St John. The volunteers of St John Ambulance wear an eight-point cross, the same
that was worn by the 11th century knights of St John who provided free medical
care at the hospital they founded in Jerusalem56. The Queen is patron of St John
Ambulance. The Countess of Wessex is Grand President. The Duchess of
Gloucester is Commandant-in-Chief of St John Cymru Wales.

FANY
FANY is the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. In 1933, Princess Alice, the Countess
of Athlone became President of the Corps. During World War II, The Queen (later
Queen Mother) was made president and Princess Alice was appointed
Commandant-in-Chief of the Corps, which had changed its name in 1936 to the
Women’s Transport Service.57 After the Countess of Athlone’s death, Princess
Anne took over as FANY Commandant-in-Chief.58 In 1999, the Corps changed its
name again. Today they are known as FANY (Princess Royal’s Volunteer Corps),
commonly abbreviated to FANY (PRVC).

Ladies-in-Waiting
1. Miss Mary Dawnay, later Lady Carew Pole (appointed circa 1970)
2. Miss Rowena Brassey, later Mrs Feilden (appointed circa 1970, after Miss
Mary; and had the bad luck to be the lady on duty, in the car with the
Princess and Captain Mark Phillips, on the night of the infamous kidnap
attempt in 1974)
3. Victoria Legge-Bourke (appointed circa 1973)
○ Victoria and the Princess were at Benenden School together, though
in different years, and by Victoria’s own admission, were not close
until a time after their paths crossed in Val-d’Isère in 1969. They
happened to be in the same “small skiing party,” where Anne was

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id=P_5I4ENEHOIC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=Commandant-in-Chief+of+the+Women
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9y55voO7TUDds&hl=en. Accessed 22 Jan. 2018.
58 "History| FANY (PRVC) - Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps."
http://www.fany.org.uk/history. Accessed 22 Jan. 2018.
 chaperoned by veteran courtier Lady Susan Hussey59. Ladies-in-
waiting generally acquire the position by recommendation from other,
older ladies-in-waiting. We are probably still in the ballpark if we
have Lady Susan surmising that there’s a rough correlation between
skiing skills and the mastery of subtlety required in a royal aide.
4. Celia Innes
○ Married with two children already, at the time of being asked by
Victoria Legge-Bourke if she wanted to be “one of them,” Celia was a
fun-loving but sensible girl-about-town who quickly endeared herself
to the Princess. By the late 80s, she was indispensable, though perhaps
a little less energetic. She requested to be demoted to “extra” lady-in-
waiting--still wishing to be in the game, but also have a life of her
own.
5. Shân Legge-Bourke
○ Of course, people assume that Victoria’s sister-in-law joined Princess
Anne’s team on the recommendation of Victoria, but Brian Hoey sets
the record straight: “In fact, the person who suggested her name to the
Princess was Celia Innes.”60 Shân, the only child of a baron, inherited
Glanusk Park and so had to juggle her lady-in-waiting duties with
estate management. Although she employed an estate manager, as
Brian Hoey points out, she was very much a hands-on landowner. She
was also Chief Commissioner for Wales of the St John Ambulance
Cadets, which ties in nicely with Princess Anne’s role as
Commandant-in-Chief for the St John Ambulance youth.
6. Araminta Ritchie (née Araminta Luarde)
○ She is married to a senior Army officer (Brigadier General Charles
Ritchie, of the Royal Scots61) with what Brian Hoey calls “one of the
most delicate positions,” which is British for ‘like top secret or
something.’ Her phone number was unlisted even among staff in the
intra-palace directory. She lived in Paris and commuted to London
when required for royal duties.
7. Caroline Nunneley (formerly Wallace)

59 "HRH Princess Anne comes to Singapore – The Mission to Seafarers ...."

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 ○ She was married to Princess Anne’s dear friend Malcolm Wallace.
Her second husband was William Nunneley. She is a renowned
sculptress. Caroline’s son Harry Wallace is one the godchildren of the
Princess Royal62. Harry’s father, Malcolm Wallace, was a legal trustee
to both of Princess Anne’s children63.
8. Jane Holderness-Roddam (formerly Jane Bullen)
○ Jane is a woman of such a level of achievement as to be capable of
throwing shade on her lifelong friend Princess Anne. She was the first
British female ever to compete in Three Day Event (eventing) at the
Olympic level--the Mexico City Games in 196864. She won the 1968
Badminton Horse Trials, and the 1978 Badminton Horse Trials. How
she found time to serve Princess Anne in the middle of all that
winning is anyone’s guess!
9. Harriet Bowes-Lyon (Mrs David Bowes-Lyon, so married to the brother of
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother)

Trivia
1. Princess Anne was granted the Royal Family Order of Queen Elizabeth II in
1969. The embodiment of this distinction is a piece of cloth bearing a
framed miniature of Anne’s mother, worn on a gown with sash and star.
2. The Princess is famous for the words “Not bloody likely”65 in response to an
attempted abductor’s demands that she get out of her car. He had a gun, but
as she told the police, “I kept saying I didn’t want to get out of the car and I
was not going to get out of the car.”66
3. She was part of the British equestrian team at the Olympic Games
4. The Queen conferred the title of “Princess Royal” upon her only daughter in
1987.

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Jan. 2018.
63 "Townswomen's Guilds National Christmas Carol Service sells out in ...."
http://www.the-tg.com/newsitem/hrh-the-princess-royal-and-townwomen-s-guilds-to-honour-victims-of-
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64 "Princess Anne visits Chester Cathedral for concert as patron of ...." 16 Dec. 2010,
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22 Jan. 2018.
65 "Princess Anne visit Chester Cathedral for concert as patron of ...." 9 Dec. 2010,
https://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/princess-anne-visit-chester-cathedral-
5199555. Accessed 22 Jan. 2018. Archived: http://archive.is/58qUR
66 "Princess Royal Training Awards." https://www.princessroyaltrainingawards.com/. Accessed 24 Jan.
2018.
 5. In the year 2014, approaching the age of 65, she undertook a grand total of
528 engagements67. This is typical for the Princess. It would be odd for her
to have less than 500 engagements in the final counts by Timothy
O’Donovan of the Times68. She was “most active” in 201569; performed a
whopping 640 engagements in 201670; and was the “busiest royal” in 201771.
6. When she and her husband can get away for some leisure, they head for
Ardfern, Scotland for some sailing in Loch Craignish. Their yacht is a rigger
called the Ballochbuie72 73.

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