Princess Anne Opens Up About Terrifying Horse Accident

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Tough as old boots

Princess Anne has revealed she has no recollection of the terrifying incident that led to her being knocked out by a horse last year, and said the experience has made her realize that “every day is a bonus.”

Speaking at an event over the weekend in South Africa, the 74-year-old sister of King Charles, who is famously the hardest-working royal, said: “It just reminds you, shows you – you never quite know, something [happens] and you might not recover.”

Anne had apparently headed out to feed her chickens on her Gatcombe Park estate last June when the accident occurred. “I don’t have any idea what I was doing in the field, because I never normally went that way,” she said, according to BBC News.

She said there had been no identifiable after-effects, other than her memory loss, joking: “I don’t think so, and as far as I know nobody else thinks so – or they haven’t been honest enough to tell me yet. So far so good.

“You are sharply reminded that every day is a bonus, really.”

Asked about the possibility of retiring, Anne said: “It really isn’t written-in, no. It isn’t really an option, no, I don’t think so. You’re jolly lucky… if you can continue to be more or less compos mentis, and last summer I was very close to not being. Take each day as it comes, they say.”

Anne is the British royal family’s most enthusiastic horse rider, and her daughter Zara is also a keen horsewoman and has competed in the Olympics.

Did fear of Trump persuade Harry to settle?

An interesting idea is floated by the usually well-informed associate editor of the Daily Telegraph, and former royal correspondent Camilla Tominey: Did Harry settle with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers because he didn’t want to rattle the cage with newly-inaugurated Donald Trump?

It was, of course, purely an accident of timing that Harry’s case finally resolved itself on Wednesday last week, two days after the Trump inauguration and a dizzying blur of activity—and liberal trolling—by the new president.

However, Tominey raises the point that now might not have been the best time for Harry to leave the U.S. to participate in the case, as it would have been all too easy for the Trump administration to not let him back in.

The right-wing Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025, is seeking to have Harry deported if it’s determined that he lied about using illegal drugs on his immigration forms.

Trump has indicated he would be open to taking action against Harry if he included false information.

Tominey asks: “Can it be coincidence that Prince Harry settled within hours of the newly re-elected president signing executive orders to deport thousands of illegal immigrants?”

An immigration attorney told The Daily Beast last year that Harry could be vulnerable to a politically motivated attack on his residential status, saying: “Department of State decisions are discretionary and very susceptible to political influence. His visa could be canceled. He could be denied entry upon return to the U.S. from foreign travel for inadmissibility due to prior drug usage, despite an unexpired visa in his passport. There are many scenarios where political influence could impact Harry’s ability to re-enter the U.S.”

In an interview with Gabor Maté to promote his memoir, Harry spoke about using the psychedelic drug ayahuasca and seemed to suggest he had used it regularly and recently.

He said: “It was the cleaning of the windshield, removal of life’s filters. It removed it all for me and brought me a sense of relaxation, release, comfort, a lightness that I managed to hold onto for a period of time. For me I started doing it recreationally and then started to realize how good it was for me. I would say it is one of the fundamental parts of my life that changed me and helped me deal with the traumas and the pains of the past.”

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Prince Nikolaos of Greece has reportedly got engaged to Chrysí Vardinogianni, less than a year after his unexpected split from Princess Tatiana, his wife of 14 years.

The royal, whose father was Constantine II of Greece—the last king of Greece before the monarchy was abolished in 1973 and Prince William’s godfather, is said to be “planning a very private ceremony.”

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