Princess Anne admits hospital staff had to fill in 'the blanks’ after suffering concussion, memory loss

Princess Anne visited the infirmary wherever she was treated for a concussion to convey the aesculapian staff.

On Thursday, the Princess Royal returned to Southmead Hospital successful Bristol, England, wherever she spent 5 days successful June 2024 owed to a horse-related wounded astatine Gatcombe Park estate, her state home. 

The 74-year-old's attraction squad said that her caput injuries were accordant with an interaction from a horse’s caput oregon legs.

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Princess Anne, Princess Royal, right, is greeted by Maria Kane, the associated main enforcement of North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospital's Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, arsenic she arrives for a sojourn to Southmead Hospital to convey the squad of doctors, nurses and wellness professionals who treated her pursuing her mishap successful June 2024, connected Feb. 6, 2025, successful Bristol, England. (Ben Birchall - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

"You've been filling successful the blanks, which partly, from my perspective, is truly utile to cognize what happened due to the fact that I earnestly don't person immoderate thought and, sadly, I don't person immense memories of being successful present either," she told the unit successful the intensive attraction portion (ICU), arsenic quoted by the BBC.

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"I conscionable cognize I was truly good looked after, truthful convey you," Anne shared. "But immoderate you did, it seemed to work… the betterment being comparatively straightforward, thankfully. That isn't ever true, truthful I'm truly grateful.

"I'm besides grateful successful a weird benignant of mode that I retrieve nothing, due to the fact that that has immense advantages. You tin conscionable transportation on."

The princess spent 5 nights successful infirmary aft the mishap connected June 23, which near her concussed and bruised, and did not instrumentality to nationalist royal duties until astir 3 weeks later. (Ben Birchall - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

During her visit, the lone girl of the precocious Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip toured the infirmary to larn astir the aesculapian unit. She met with doctors and nurses, heard the unit choir execute successful the main nationalist atrium and visited the unit garden.

According to the outlet, she besides viewed the chopper pad utilized by the Air Ambulance, a occupation that her nephew, Prince William, erstwhile had successful East Anglia.

Southmead Hospital, astir an hour's thrust from Gatcombe Park, specializes successful large trauma, neurosciences, a hyperacute changeable unit, renal medicine, vascular surgery, urology, integrative surgery, burns and infectious diseases, according to a palace statement.

"You've been filling successful the blanks, which partly, from my perspective, is truly utile to cognize what happened due to the fact that I earnestly don't person immoderate thought and, sadly, I don't person immense memories of being successful present either."

Princess Anne admitted she is inactive trying to enactment the pieces unneurotic of what happened astatine her state estate. (ARTHUR EDWARDS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The BBC reported that the ICU admits much than 2,000 patients each year, making it 1 of the busiest successful the country.

It was reported that Anne was successful a tract erstwhile she was injured by a equine and suffered impermanent representation loss. Fox News Digital reached retired to Buckingham Palace for remark astatine the time. 

After the injury, Anne was forced to cancel a planned circuit of Canada, arsenic good arsenic respective engagements successful the UK. Within a month, she returned to work.

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Princess Anne, Princess Royal during Trooping the Colour connected June 15, 2024 successful London. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images)

In January, Anne told The Press Association she was inactive trying to enactment the pieces unneurotic of what happened.

"I cognize wherever I thought I was going and that was to spell to the chickens," she said, arsenic quoted by Vanity Fair. "No, thing to bash with horses. 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."

The princess, who was air-lifted to the hospital, said she was fortunate to person avoided a much devastating encephalon injury.

King Charles III and Princess Anne, Princess Royal be the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance astatine the Royal Albert Hall connected Nov. 9, 2024 successful London. (Chris J. Ratcliffe - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

"You’re jolly lucky... if you tin proceed to beryllium much oregon less compos mentis, and past summertime I was precise adjacent to not being," she said. "Take each time arsenic it comes, they say. You are sharply reminded that each time is simply a bonus really."

When asked if she suffered immoderate semipermanent effects, Anne replied, "As acold arsenic I know, cipher other thinks so."

"They haven’t been honorable capable to archer maine yet," she joked. "So far, truthful good."

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Princess Anne, Princess Royal, is seen present with her daughter, Zara Tindall, right. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

A root antecedently told OK! Magazine that Anne’s wounded had near her girl "shaken to the core."

"She’s desperately hoping this representation [loss] is temporary," the root claimed astatine the clip of the hospitalization. "This has been a immense wake-up telephone for everyone successful the family, and they’re rightfully distressed."

"For the past respective years, Zara Tindall has been worried that the palace has been relying excessively heavy connected her septuagenarian mother," Christopher Andersen, writer of "The King," claimed to Fox News Digital astatine the time.

Princess Anne is simply a celebrated equestrian. (Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images)

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"She has a point," said Andersen. "Princess Anne is routinely described arsenic the hardest moving royal, racking up 457 engagements past twelvemonth alone. She has ever been fondly thought of arsenic inexhaustible — adjacent invincible. When Zara saw her parent lying successful a infirmary furniture suffering from a terrible concussion and representation loss, she was understandably shaken."

"… Only truthful galore shoes tin driblet earlier the instauration of the monarchy itself begins to look awfully shaky," Andersen added.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.