Princess Anne, who ‘remembers nothing’ of the day she was hit by a horse

LPrincess Anne of England ‘remembers nothing’ of accident with her horses because of which last June she ended up in hospital for five days with «minor injuries and concussions“, as reported in the Buckingham Palace press release. The sister of King Charles IIIan Olympic medal-winning rider, was walking on her Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire when «would have been hit by the head or kick of one or more horses“. To date, the accident has not yet been reconstructed in detail. And now the British press explains why: Anna “does not remember anything.”

She admitted it herself when, a few days ago, she returned to royal duties. Princess she was the godmother in a competition in Gloucestershire, central England, organised by theequestrian association that welcomes people with disabilitiesthe Riding for the Disabled Association, awarding the winners. Now Helena Vega Lozano, head of the RDA UK, has told the Daily Mail that the princess, speaking to her about the great fright she experienced last June, admitted: «I don’t remember anything». According to the reconstructions circulating in the press, it would have been the doctors – based on the injuries reported – who tried to understand what could have happened to the princess. And those injuries are compatible, in fact, with a potential impact with the head or the legs of a horse.

Moreover, already in the last few days the royal expert of the Daily Mail Rebecca English had written that King Charles’s sister had «temporarily lost memory»: «He doesn’t remember what happened that evening.”. What we know for sure is that Anna’s husband, Admiral, was also present at the time of the accident at Gatcombe Park estate. Tim Laurenceand his children Zara Tindall and Peter PhillipsThe princess was rescued by doctors called by her family and immediately transferred by helicopter to the hospital Southmead of BristolForced to cancel all her scheduled public engagements – including a trip to Canada and a state dinner in honor of Emperor Naruhito and his wife Masako – Anna was released from hospital on June 28. She then spent a short period of convalescence at Gatcombe Park. But now, despite the memory lapses, the hardest-working royal has returned to official duties.

However It’s not the first time that the sovereign’s sister has suffered memory loss due to a riding accident. In 1976 her steed, Goodwill, got stuck in the mud on the course during a training session and fell on her: Anna lost consciousness, broke a vertebra, and then described his memory as “almost non-existent for that day“. But not even that accident, of course, stopped her.