Princess Anne's burning ambition she was never allowed to try thanks to royal duties

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Princess Anne has revealed what her life could have been like if she'd quit the royal family like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

The Princess Royal, who turns 70 in August, once had a burning ambition she wasn't permitted to fulfil because of her gruelling duties as a member of The Firm.

Speaking to Vanity Fair ahead of her landmark birthday, Princess Anne admitted she'd always been interested in a more practical career than the one she was born into.

In fact, she believes she would have been an engineer had she not been of royal blood. "The practicalities of how things work, I think, was always interesting as far as I was concerned," she told the magazine. "But I think it was a little bit early in the sort of scheme of things to have