Princess Anne was almost kidnapped 51 years ago.

But the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip remained so consistent in her senior royal role that a recent twist in her usual updo was enough of a change in the almost-75-year-old's routine to compel a closer look.

Because if anyone had reason to decide this royal life—which due to the rules in place at her birth time meant her younger brothers and their kids leapfrogged her place in line to the throne—was getting to be a little much, it could have been Anne. Instead, she's been the most stalwart of them all, regularly out-appearing everyone in the family, including her older brother, King Charles III .

The Princess Royal has stoically handled everything from divorce (hers and, more recently, her son Pet

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