Princess Royal offers advice to yachting hopefuls in South Africa

The Princess Royal offered sage proposal to yachting hopefuls vying for a spot successful a prestigious transatlantic contention – you volition person to larn to unrecorded together.

Anne, a keen sailor, chatted to the radical of young women hoping to beryllium picked for Royal Cape Yacht Club’s (RCYC) introduction to Cape2Rio – which sets disconnected aboriginal this twelvemonth with vessels racing betwixt the 2 celebrated cities.

Jennifer Burger, manager of the sailing academy astatine the RCYC successful Cape Town, said: “She said to the girls ‘you’re each going to person to larn to unrecorded unneurotic connected the boat’.

“She said she was ne'er allowed to sail dinghies and she windsurfed for fitness.”

Anne’s sojourn came during the last time of a two-day sojourn to South Africa and she besides toured the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, which keeps live the representation of the erstwhile archbishop of Cape Town awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace successful 1984 for his absorption to apartheid successful South Africa.

The princess past visited South Africa successful 2012 to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, and she besides toured the South African Astronomical Observatory.

It was built successful the 1820s aft George IV authorised the British Admiralty to found a royal observatory astatine the Cape of Good Hope, to supply close prima positions to assistance ships navigate the treacherous waters astir the Cape.

Anne was shown a dome lodging 3 telescopes, the largest was a 24-inch refractor, and she was fixed a objection of the level being raised truthful astronomers could spot done the oculus piece.