Arms: The Royal Arms, differenced by a label of three points, charged on the 1st and 3rd points with a cross and on the 2nd with a heart. Creation: 13 June 1987.

THE PRINCESS ROYAL (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, KG (1994), GCVO (1974)) [HRH The Princess Royal KG GCVO QSO, Buckingham Palace, London SW1A 1AA; Gatcombe Park, Minchinhampton, Glos GL6 9AT]; born Clarence House 15 Aug 1950; educ Benenden; Ch-Cmdt WRNS; Chllr London U 1981–; Cmdt-in-Ch: Women's Tport Serv, St John Ambulance and Nursing Cadets; Col-in-Ch: Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Branch, 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's), 14th/20th King's Hussars, King's Roy Hus, Grey and Simcoe Foresters Militia, Roy Australian Corps Signals, Roy Corps Signals, Roy Logistic Corps, Roy Newfoundland Regt, Roy NZ Corps of Signals , Roy NZ Nursing Corps, Roy Regina Rifles, Roy Scots (Roy Regt), Worcs and Sherwood Foresters Regt (29th/45th Foot), Gold Stick Blues and Royals 1998–; Fell King's Coll London, FICE, FISMM, FRSGS; Freedom City London 1976; Freeman: Falkirk Dist, Fishmongers' Co; Hon Air Cdre: RAF Lyneham, London U Air Sqdn; Hon Col OTC London U Contingent; life memb Roy Br Legn Women's Section; Hon Freeman: Farmers' Co and Loriners' Co, Yeoman in Saddlers' Co; Hon life memb RNVR Officers' Assoc; Hon Liveryman Farriers' Co; Hon Memb: Br Equine Veterinary Assoc, Nat Osteoporosis Soc; Hon Pres: Chartered Inst Tport, Roy Caledonian Hunt; Jt Pres Lowland Bde Club; Internat Humanitarian Award Variety Club 1987; Master Carmen's Co; memb: Internat Olympic Ctee 1988–, Lloyd's 1989; Past Master Woolmen's Co; Past Pres: Chartered Inst Tport; Patron: Amateur Jockeys Assoc GB, Animal Diseases Research Assoc, Army and Roy Artillery Hunter Trials, Assoc Combined Youth Clubs, Australian Veterinary Assoc, Basic Skills Agency, Benenden Ball, Br Exec Serv Overseas, Br Nutrition Fndn, Br Olympic Medical Tst, Br Quality Fndn, Br Sch Osteopathy, Br-US Sports Assoc, Butler Tst, Canadian Communications and Electronic Branch Inst, Canadian Therapeutic Riding Assoc, Canal Museum Tst, Centl Scotland Countryside Tst, Citizens Advice Scotland, Coll Occupnl Therapists, Concert Global Challenge, Cornwall '98, Cranfield Tst, Devpt Tst (for mentally handicapped), Dunn Nutrition Centre, English Lacrosse Assoc, Farms for City Children, Flying Scot Club, Friends of Hosp for Tropical Diseases, Glos and N Avon Fedn Young Farmers' Clubs, Glos Rugby Union, Home Farm Tst, Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, Home Farm Tst Devpt Tst, Hong Kong Save The Children Fund Corporate Fund Raising Ctee, Intensive Care Soc, Inst Logistics, Internat Health Exchange, Jersey Wildlife Preservation Tst, Liverpool Sch Tropical Medicine, Minchinhampton Centre for the Elderly, Moredun Fndn, Nat Assoc CAB, Nat Assoc Prison Visitors, Nat Assoc Victim Support Schemes, Nat Autistic Soc, Nat Coaching Fndn, Nat Union Townswomen's Guilds, NI Prison Serv Centl Benevolent Fund, Northern Lighthouse Bd, Quarry Bank Mill Tst, Riding for the Disabled Assoc (Australia), Roy Coll Anaesthetists, Roy Coll Paediatrics and Child Health, Roy Corinthian Yacht Club, Roy Corps Signals Inst, Roy Dick Sch Veterinary Studies, Roy LymingtonYacht Club, Roy Port Moresby Soc for Prevention Cruelty Animals, Roy Scots Club, Roy Signals Assoc, Roy Tournament, Sailability, Scottish Assoc Young Farmers' Clubs, Scottish Business Achievement Award Tst, Scottish Fiddle Orchestra, Scottish Field Studies Assoc, Scottish Inst Sports Medicine and Sports Sci, Scottish Nat Fatstock Club, Scottish Rugby Union, SENSE (Nat Deaf-Blind and Rubella Assoc), Shire Horse Soc, Six Circle Club, Spinal Injuries Assoc, Splash Ball, Suffolk Horse Soc, Textile Conservn Centre, Townswomen's Guilds, Transaid, UK Antarctic Heritage Tst, UK Sailing Acad, Ulster Sports and Recreation Tst, Victim Support Scotland, Westminster and London Horse Show, Wooden Spoon Soc, World Breeding Fedn for Sport Horses, World Student Debating Championships 1999, Year of Sport, Youth Sail Trg Tst; Pres: Animal Health Tst, BAFTA, Br Horse Soc 1998–, Br Knitting and Clothing Export Cncl, Br Olympic Assoc, CNAA, ILPH, Internat Riders' Scholarships Awards Panel, Missions to Seamen, Nat Riding Week, Patrons Crime Concern, Princess Royal Tst for Carers, RedR (Engrs for Disaster Relief), Riding for the Disabled Assoc, Roy Sch for Daughters of Offrs of RN and RM (Haslemere), Roy Yachting Assoc, Rural Housing Tst, Save the Children Fund, Scottish Chamber Commerce, Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Roy Benevolent Soc, Windsor Horse Trials, Working Clumber Spaniel Soc, WRNS Benevolent Tst; Roy Bencher Inner Temple 1990; Visitor: Felixstowe Coll, St Mary's Cathedral (Edinburgh) Workshop; V-Patron: British Show Jumping Assoc, Memorial to the Women of World War II, WRNS Assoc; V-Pres: Nat Fedn Young Farmers' Clubs, RGS, Roy Bath and W County Show, Soc of Friends of St George's and Descendants of Knights of the Garter, Southern Counties Show; FRS 1987, FRCVS 1986, Hon FRCS 1986, Hon FIEE 1987, Hon FRCP 1990; married 1st Westminster Abbey 14 Nov 1973 (divorce 1992), as his 1st w, Capt Mark Anthony Peter Phillips, CVO, late ADC(P) (married 2nd 1 Feb 1997 Sandy, daughter of James Pflueger, of Honolulu, Hawaii), only s of Maj Peter William Garside Phillips, MC, late 1st King's Dragoon Gds, and has:

1a +Peter Mark Andrew; born St Mary's Hosp Paddington 15 Nov 1977; educ Gordonstoun

1a +Zara Anne Elizabeth; born St Mary's Hosp Paddington 15 May 1981

THE PRINCESS ROYAL married 2nd Crathie Church, Aberdeenshire, 12 Dec 1992 •Capt Timothy James Hamilton Laurence, MVO (1989), RN, yr s of Cdr Guy Stewart Laurence, RN, by Barbara Alison Symonds

Princess Royal, previous holders:
The style is exclusive to the eldest or sole daughter of the Sovereign. It is for life only and there can never be more than one Princess Royal at a time, so that the dignity is conferred only if the previous Princess Royal has died. The mode of conferring is by declaration. The earliest daughter of an English or Scottish sovereign to be so styled was CHARLES I's daughter MARY, mother of WILLIAM III. The first daughter of a sovereign of Britain (i.e., following the Union of English and Scottish Parliaments of 1707) to be so styled was ANNE, GEORGE II's child, who lived from 1709 to 1759. She married William IV Prince of Orange and their grandson WILLIAM I became first sovereign of the modern Kingdom of The Netherlands in 1815. His great-great-great granddaughter is the current QUEEN BEATRIX. The style Princess Royal was subsequently conferred on (a) GEORGE III's eldest daughter CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA MATILDA, who married FREDERICK I, KING OF WURTTEMBERG; (b) QUEEN VICTORIA's eldest daughter, VICTORIA ADELAIDE MARY LOUISA, who married the German Emperor FREDERICK III and was mother of the last Kaiser, WILLIAM II; (c) EDWARD VII's eldest daughter, LOUISE VICTORIA ALEXANDRA DAGMAR, who married the 1st Duke of Fife (qv); and (d) GEORGE V's only daughter, (VICTORIA ALEXANDRA ALICE) MARY, who married the 6th Earl of Harewood (qv).

Seat:
Gatcombe Park, Minchinhampton, Glos. An earlier manor house adjoining Minchinhampton Church was replaced in the early 1740s by the present structure, possibly to the designs of Francis Franklin, a native of Chalford in the Stroud valley and the master mason employed on the project. His patron was Edward Sheppard, from a family of prosperous Cotswold clothiers who had bought the property in 1651 from the 1st Earl of Plymouth (qv) of the 1682 creation. The latter's family name, oddly enough, like that of the present owner, was Windsor (see again PLYMOUTH, E, for the forced exchange in 1542 of the manor of Stanwell with among other property that of Minchinhampton).

Internal plasterwork after Adam dates from the mid-18th century. Some 70 years later the estate was bought by David Ricardo, the father of political economy in Britain. He called in Disraeli's cousin George Basevi to extend wings either side of the two-storey-over-basement ashlar-clad main block. This, with its moulded cornice and balustraded parapet climaxing in a triangular break-front pediment over a Venetian window, was extended slightly forward at ground level with a portico, again topped with a balustrade, resting on four doric columns. The two wings are single-storey, with bow-windows, that on the left as one faces the house greatly extended in its turn by a conservatory added in 1829.

Just before World War II Col Henry Ricardo sold Gatcombe to Samuel Courtauld, a member of the textile family, from whom it was inherited in 1947 by R A Butler, his son-in-law, later Lord Butler of Saffron Walden (see 1970 edn). The latter sold it to HM THE QUEEN in 1976 for a reported £500,000 (well over £2m in late-1990s terms).