Princess Anne's curls seen in rare picture of her as child without sweptback beehive

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Anne, Princess Royal has had the same hairstyle for around five decades. Most of us are familiar with the swept up, bouffant style.

But a private photograph of Princess Anne and Prince Charles watching polo with their father at Smith's Lawn, Windsor Great Park, shows that actually, the princess's hair - when she was younger - was naturally blonde and very curly.

Anne, now 70, has spoken out about her hairstyle in the past, after actress Erin Doherty, who plays a young Anne in the Crown, gave several interviews in which she claimed it took between 90 minutes and two hours to get right.

Erin told journalists: "It's its own beast. "Literally, I would sit in the chair, people would come in and go and come in and go, and I sat still in the