LONDON (Reuters) -Princess Anne, the late Queen Elizabeth’s only daughter and a former Olympic equestrian, turns 75 on Friday, with little fanfare planned in keeping with the royal’s disdain for making a fuss.

To mark the occasion, Buckingham Palace is releasing a new photograph of the horse-loving princess, who is often credited with being the hardest-working member of the British royal family.

Born in 1950, two years after her brother, now King Charles, and two years before her mother would become monarch, Anne became renowned as a young princess for her rather brusque, plain-speaking public demeanour – reminiscent of her late father Prince Philip.

But she went on to gain acclaim for her horse-riding triumphs, becoming Britain’s first royal Olympian when she competed at the 1976 Montr

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