King Charles was 'deeply worried' about Princess Anne's mystery horse accident that left monarch's sister hospitalised with a concussion

Princess Anne has revealed for the archetypal clip however adjacent she was to being near with devastating injuries aft a enigma mishap past summer.

Discussing the incident, successful which she was recovered unconscious connected her Gatcombe Park property successful Gloucestershire earlier spending 5 days successful hospital, the King's sister said she recalls 'nothing' of what happened.

Buckingham Palace has lone said her injuries were accordant with being struck successful the caput by a horse's hoof oregon head. 

The Princess Royal, 74, insists she volition not beryllium slowing down immoderate clip soon, saying it 'isn't an option' for those successful the Royal Family.

Hinting powerfully astatine the seriousness of the mishap and her concussion – which the Mail understands near King Charles 'deeply worried' – she said: 'You're jolly lucky... if you tin proceed to beryllium much oregon little compos mentis and past summertime I was precise adjacent to not being.'

Asked if she had immoderate representation of what happened past June, she admitted: '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.'

She said with antithetic seriousness: 'It conscionable reminds you, shows you, you ne'er rather know, thing [happens] and you mightiness not recover. Take each time arsenic it comes, they say.'

An aerial ambulance was scrambled to the property and the princess was taken to Southmead Hospital successful Bristol by road.

She past spent 5 nights arsenic an in-patient earlier being discharged to convalesce astatine home. She was seen a fewer weeks aboriginal inactive sporting dense bruising astir her face.

The princess confirmed determination were nary lasting injuries, but added: 'You are sharply reminded that each time is simply a bonus, really.'

Anne is simply a cardinal subordinate of the King's slimmed-down moving monarchy and has stepped up amid his crab diagnosis, taking connected duties specified arsenic authoritative investitures.

She carried retired her archetypal nationalist lawsuit successful 1969 aged 18 erstwhile she opened an acquisition and grooming centre successful Shropshire.

And past twelvemonth she undertook 474 engagements, erstwhile much making her the hardest-working royal. 

Speaking successful Cape Town, wherever Anne has conscionable undertaken the Royal Family's archetypal overseas circuit of the year, she again showed her beardown dedication to duty. 

After a whirlwind two-day sojourn that ended connected Wednesday, the princess was asked whether status was an option, replying: 'It truly isn't written in, no.

'It isn't truly an option, no, I don't deliberation so. I don't deliberation there's a status programme connected this peculiar life.'

While successful Cape Town, Anne laid a wreath astatine a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial – the archetypal to recognise 1,700 achromatic South Africans and different races who died moving arsenic First World War labourers. 

She performed the task arsenic CWGC president, a relation that had been carried retired by the Duke of Kent, 89, since 1970 with Anne taking implicit successful 2023.

The princess said: 'I'm precise fortunate to instrumentality connected from the Duke of Kent the CWGC, but he's been doing that for a precise agelong time.

He did it precise good and has covered the globe successful enactment of them... successful the extremity helium felt physically that helium couldn't question arsenic much, and helium couldn't beryllium arsenic businesslike successful supporting – and I was fortunate capable to beryllium asked.

'On the 1 manus you spell for arsenic agelong arsenic you can, but you person to judge determination are immoderate things you can't bash anymore and helium did that.

'I'm the beneficiary of that which has allowed maine to instrumentality that on.'