Princess Anne has no memory of 2024 accident

Princess Anne says she has nary representation of the mishap that enactment her successful infirmary with concussion past summer.

It was believed to beryllium caused by a horse, but the Princess Royal says she recalls "nothing" of the incidental connected her Gatcombe Park property that led to a five-night infirmary stay.

Speaking to the Press Association connected a travel to South Africa, she said it had taught her that "every time is simply a bonus".

The princess, who volition beryllium 75 aboriginal this year, besides ruled retired retirement, saying: "It isn't truly an option".

There was uncertainty past June astir what had happened to her erstwhile she was treated successful infirmary for what Buckingham Palace described arsenic "minor injuries and concussion".

Her aesculapian squad had described her injuries arsenic being accordant with the benignant of interaction from a horse's legs oregon head.

Princess Anne says she has nary representation of the incidental connected her Gloucestershire estate: "No, nothing."

"I cognize wherever I thought I was going and that was to spell to the chickens, no, thing to bash with horses."

Seeing the chickens was "my regular visit, I don't person immoderate thought what I was doing successful the field, due to the fact that I ne'er usually went that way.

"It conscionable reminds you, shows you - you ne'er rather know, thing [happens] and you mightiness not recover."

Emergency services had been called to the property aft the mishap and the princess was taken to Southmead Hospital successful Bristol.

She had to temporarily measurement down from royal duties portion she recovered, missing a planned travel to Canada and the Japanese authorities sojourn to the UK.

Princess Anne commented connected realising she mightiness person had a adjacent miss with much superior problems.

"You're jolly lucky... if you tin proceed to beryllium much oregon little compos mentis [of dependable mind] and past summertime I was precise adjacent to not being.

"Take each time arsenic it comes, they say."

She said determination were nary lasting ill-effects, but added: "You are sharply reminded that each time is simply a bonus really."

Princess Anne, sister of King Charles and 1 of the busiest of the "working royals" has nary plans to retire.

"I don't deliberation there's a status programme connected this peculiar life," she said.

"It truly isn't written in, no. It isn't truly an option, no, I don't deliberation so," the princess said of immoderate plans to chopped backmost connected her moving life.

Princess Anne carried retired a two-day sojourn to South Africa this week.

It included a ceremonial recognising the overlooked efforts of achromatic South Africans who died during World War One, moving arsenic labourers alternatively than combatants.

Laying a wreath astatine the Cape Town Labour Corps Memorial she honoured 1,700 who had mislaid their lives, moving successful pugnacious conditions, and whose sacrifices had often not been recognised.

"This memorial is simply a reminder of a shared but sometimes hard past," said Princess Anne.