Princess Ann to Visit ALL Lighthouses in Scotland as Patron

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Princess Ann to Visit ALL Lighthouses in Scotland as Patron

Caption: Princess Anne hopes to visit every one of Scotland’s 209 lighthouses

Princess Anne is to embark on a three-day cruise off the west coast in June to visit as many of Scotland's lighthouses as she can.

The Princess Royal will get a few nautical miles closer to achieving her objective of visiting every one of Scotland’s 209 lighthouses this month.

Mandrake (The Telegraph) hears that Princess Anne will be cramming in as many visits to the solitary sentinels as she can during a three-day cruise off the west coast aboard the Northern Lighthouse Board vessel Pharos from June 24.

Anne, who has been an active patron of the NLB since 1993, got hooked on lighthouses at an early age. Aged just five, she accompanied the Queen on a visit to Tiumpan Head on the Isle of Lewis. Lighthouses figured prominently in her classroom paintings after that.

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Queen of Jewelry

Brooches, usually worn on the left shoulder, were a favourite for the royal and the Queen was believed to have over 100 in her collection. A selection that would go with an outfit were presented to her - usually three at a time - by her senior dresser and confidante Angela Kelly on special trays that once belonged to Queen Mary. The royal had a wide variety of different brooches which she often wore with her usual pearl earrings and necklace, including a spray of flowers brooch by the people and government of Australia during her Coronation tour of 1954./