Buckingham Palace has been forced to remove a page from its own website after it appeared to create a whole new royal family for Princess Anne.
The Palace had only just published a list of ‘fun facts’ about the Princess to mark her upcoming 75th birthday when it had to swiftly remove it after eagled eyed royal watchers spotted an apparently shocking claim.
The list of facts stated that Princess Anne was a stepmother. It said she had two stepchildren through her marriage to Tim Laurence and even named them as Tom and Amy.
There has never been any mention at all of Tim Laurence having a family prior to his 1992 wedding to Princess Anne so the ‘fun fact’ quickly caused a lot of ‘fun discussion’ online as royal watchers went heavy on the shocked emojis as they shared the screenshot.
Within moments, Buckingham Palace had deleted the whole page.
Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence married in December 1992 after a relationship which had already caused headlines as the groom’s passionate letters to his bride had ended up in the papers while she was still legally married to her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
The Princess Royal and Sir Tim have been happily married now for 32 years, the longest marriage of any of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s children to date.
Anne has two children from her first marriage, Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, and Sir Tim is stepfather to them. They appear to enjoy a happy and close relationship.
The now deleted page perked up an otherwise traditional royal birthday celebration which has already seen an official portrait of Princess Anne and Sir Tim released while the Royal Mint has struck the first ever commemorative coin in the UK to bear Anne’s likeness.
The Princess Royal’s actual birthday is August 15th – 48 hours in which the Palace can share some less striking ‘fun facts’.
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