Less than one month after Princess Anne’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died, the Princess Royal traveled stateside.“We were pleased to welcome Her Royal Highness Princess Anne to the #StatenIslandFerry today,” the official Twitter account for New York City’s Department of Transportation wrote on Tuesday, October 4, sharing a photo of the 72-year-old royal riding on the ferry.After arriving in the NYC borough, Anne visited the National Lighthouse Museum.
During her tour, the organization named her the honorary chair of its “Illuminating Future Generations” campaign.“I think lighthouses have been a particularly good way of educating people about the importance of maritime in all its formats,” Anne said on Tuesday, according to the Staten Island Advance, calling the museum a “tremendously good way” of engaging young patrons. “It’s not just about trade, but the impact of what we do to the sea, and how we can look after it better, and the way in which it affects our lives.”She added: “The lighthouse still has a really important part to play.
The story that goes with lighthouses and how we got here is just as important, and [the] museum has made an astonishing impact in telling that story.
What you do needs scope, to tell more of that story. The campaign for Illuminating Future Generations is highly imaginative and has real scope for the future, not just here [in New York City].
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