Sister King: How Princess Anne Became Her Brother’s Closest Confidante

On the day the Duke of Sussex, now a resident of Santa Barbara, revealed the cover of his memoir last October, another royal “spare” was in Uganda, meeting families at a settlement for refugees fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the following day’s newspapers, there was no mention of Princess Anne visiting the camp with Save the Children, the charity she has championed for more than half a century. But, had anybody noticed it, the juxtaposition of “spares”—that perennially fraught role in any dynasty—was illuminating. In her youth Anne, who was once third in line to the… Read Full Article