The Princess Royal was once reunited with TV actor Martin Clunes as she performed a sequence of engagements in Dorset on Monday. Anne, 75, made a forestall at Bovington Equestrian Centre, the place she was once proven round by way of the Document Martin famous person, 63, who’s the President of the British Horse Society.
The King’s sister, who was once dressed well in a brown tweed skirt swimsuit and a pink shawl, watched driving demonstrations all through her day trip and met scholars of the Royal Armoured Corps Saddle Membership. Anne heard extra in regards to the BHS’ Converting Lives Via Horses initiative is an equine schooling programme designed for the ones with further wishes.
The Princess, who’s an achieved equestrian herself, has been Vice Patron of the organisation since 2017. She regularly attends BHS award ceremonies and occasions in fortify of its paintings. The King was once additionally made patron of the charity in 2024.
Martin stated the ones participating in BHS programme had been discovering it was once “simply converting their lives”. The Males Behaving Badly famous person informed the BBC: “It is bettering the stipulations of younger individuals who have slipped via different nets and have not been picked up on different radars. It offers them such a lot – I see it at all times.”
BHS’ Leader govt James Hicks added: “After all, get right of entry to to horses isn’t one thing everybody can do all through the entire nation very simply. What we are right here to do is to lend a hand as many younger folks, and folks of all other backgrounds, have the option to be concerned with horses.”
The actor is an avid horse rider and proprietor, and took at the position of President of the BHS in 2011. Martin and Anne had been pictured chatting animatedly all through the engagement, ahead of the royal unveiled a plaque to mark her seek advice from. All through her time in Dorset, Anne visited the Boat Development Academy in Lyme Regis and Ivy Hotel Centre in Bournemouth. She additionally opened the brand new Dorset Police Headquarters and Memorial Lawn.