Why Princess Anne is the most fashionable royal of all
telegraph.co.ukPrincess Anne, she of horsey country fairs in rural Gloucestershire and House of Bruar tweeds, who is far more comfortable watching dressage than a Dior couture show is an accidental style icon.
For years, she was a fashion punchline, but she’s stuck to her guns in a steadfast show of consistency and it’s paid off. Princess Anne’s particular USP is not giving one jot.
The 71-year old is always unerringly herself, whether it’s in an old Barbour hauled from the back of the ‘Landy, or stiff silk floral affairs, that distinctive plume of backcombed of hair, caring not a fig for the wiry grey.
Who’s got time to faff around with the Garnier when there’s an estate to run and horses to ride? On hearing that the hair department of The Crown would spend two hours perfecting her on-screen counterpart’s ‘do she declared: “how could it possibly take that long?
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