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Princess Anne recently celebrated her 73rd birthday and isn’t due to undertake royal engagements until August 29.
Therefore, the Princess Royal can enjoy a well-deserved holiday. She could spend some of her break with King Charles and Queen Camilla at Balmoral.
It’s thought that other royals might too, potentially including her niece Lady Louise Windsor, 19.
Although they’re not regularly seen together, Princess Anne’s unique connection with Lady Louise Windsor is something they don’t share with anybody else in the Royal Family.
Although she’s generally known only as Princess Anne or the Princess Royal, she was christened with the much longer full name Anne Elizabeth Louise.
She and Lady Louise Windsor are the only royals to have Louise either as a first or middle name.
Louise is the feminine form of Louis, which has been a very popular choice as a first and middle name in the Royal Family for many generations.
It is said to mean “renowned warrior” which is a strong name. Therefore, it was likely a flattering choice for both Princess Anne and Lady Louise.
Many of the other royal women have other middle names that they share with more distant relatives like Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary.
In light of this, Princess Anne could potentially have been given the middle name Louise in honour of another Princess Royal called Louise.
Princess Louise was the sister of King George V and the great-aunt of the late Queen Elizabeth.
It’s also possible that Louise was chosen after Prince Philip’s great-grandmother, Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
Lady Louise Windsor could also have perhaps been partly named after Princess Anne, who is the closest relative to her with this name.
Aside from their name link which only they share, there is another connection between the two of them.
Princess Anne and Lady Louise Windsor faced a big change earlier this year when Princess Eugenie’s second son was born. This is because they were both born before 2011 and so were leapfrogged in the royal line of succession by Ernest Brooksbank.
The Succession to the Crown Act in 2013 changed the law so female royals born after 2011 would no longer be pushed down the succession by their brothers.
Therefore, when Prince Louis was born in 2018, he did not leapfrog his older sister Princess Charlotte in the line of succession.
