While most of the royals will
likely be spending the poignant day in private, Princess Anne, who was
incredibly close with her late father, will be on the first day of her royal
tour of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Princess Royal will be joined for
her five-day trip, which will begin in the Australian city of Sydney, by her
husband Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.
For their first day, the pair
will meet with Margaret Beazley, the Governor of New South Wales, as well as
General David John Hurley, the Governor-General of Australia. They will then
head to the Bicentennial Sydney Royal Easter Show, where they will visit stalls
and attend the festival’s opening ceremony before being the guest of honour at
the Sydney Olympic Park.
This visit will be especially
poignant for the royal, as she first visited the festival in 1970, where she
was accompanied by her late father and the Queen.
Other stops during her tour
will see her pay a visit to the Rural Fire Service at Telopea Park, where she
will meet with representatives from the service and meet with families who have
been affected by bushfires and floods in the region.
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Anne was very close with her late father
For the latter half of her
trip, Princess Anne will be in Papua New Guinea, where she will be met by the
Governor-General, Sir Bob Dadae, before going on to meet Prime Minister James
Marape.
During her visit, she is due
to open the National Cardiac Diagnostic Centre at the Port Moresby General
Hospital and the National Ambulance Control Centre of the St. John Ambulance. Anne
will also lay a wreath at the Bomana War Cemetery on behalf of the Queen. The
remains of 3,284 Commonwealth soldiers are buried at the cemetery.
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Princess Royal will be returning to Australia for a royal tour
Princess Anne often tops the
list of the hardest-working royal, and she carries out hundreds of engagements
each year for some of the 300 charities and organisations she’s involved with.
She topped the list last year carrying out an astonishing 540 official duties
both at home and overseas.
She also carried out the
first royal engagement of 2022 when she attended the Oxford Farming
Conference via a video call in her role as Honorary President and was joined
by her husband.
