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Princess Anne cancels engagement after incident on horse

Princess Anne is still recovering from being hospitalized with a concussion, which we have now learned was an incident involving a horse.

The 73-year-old princess has cancelled several appointments planned for next week, including a trip to Scotland to visit the lighthouse tender NLV Pharos, as well as a trip to Norfolk in eastern England, where she was due to visit Brancaster Station in her role as royal patron of the National Coastwatch Institution. People reported.

She canceled the appearances on the advice of her medical team, the outlet said.

Anne’s visit to a Citizens Advice Bureau office in Norwich was also cancelled. Norwich Evening News reported.

King Charles III’s only sister suffered minor injuries in the incident at her Gatcombe Park estate last month, Buckingham Palace said in a statement at the time. The palace added that Anne was being treated at Southmead Hospital in Bristol “as a precautionary measure for observation.” The statement said she was “expected to make a full and speedy recovery.”

A few days later, Anne’s husband Timothy Laurence shared an update on her health with a well-wisher after visiting her in hospital. “She is recovering well, thank you,” he said, according to the palace. “We are deeply grateful to the medical team and hospital staff for their expert care – and to the emergency services who were all so wonderful at the scene.”

Anne was discharged from hospital after five days and has since taken part in a number of events, including the Riding for the Disabled Association’s national championships in Gloucestershire on July 12 – where she said she could remember “nothing less” than the incident with the horse – and a visit to the British Army’s Military Intelligence Battalion on July 17.

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