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Next week, Princess Anne will travel the length and breadth of the UK, starting the week with a livestock sale in Perth and ending it with three engagements in Portsmouth.
Yet despite the hours she puts in, the plain-speaking princess gets very little thanks and even less media coverage, all of which begs the question: Why does she do it?
According to Nikki Jeffries, managing editor at Royalista.com, the answer is a sense of duty - something she has inherited from her hard-working parents.
'The apple never falls far from the tree and Princess Anne has had two very good royal role models in her parents,' she explains.
'None of them has ever craved the limelight, even though they all understand the importance of using their public profile to highlight the causes they support.'
In this, plain-speaking Anne has few equals and makes regular, if rare, contributions to public debate, most controversially on the subject of horses.
Speaking at the annual conference of World Horse Welfare, of which the 64-year-old is president, she caused outrage when she suggested that 'attitudes towards the horse meat trade may need to change'.
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