Princess Anne Looked Like a Total Boss on Horseback at the Trooping the Colour Parade

At this year's Trooping the Colour parade—one of the most highly-anticipated events on the royal calendar—Princess Anne has proven again that, when duty calls, she can take care of business. While some senior royals tend to passively participate in the parade, arriving by carriage, Anne traditionally takes up a different post in the procession: Decked out in her royal colonel garb, riding horseback like a champ.

In the past, she would typically ride alongside two of her brothers, then-Prince Charles and Prince Andrew, and her nephew, Prince William, but with 2023 marking Charles's first Trooping the Colour as monarch and Andrew no longer involved in official royal duties, there are sure to be some changes this year. In fact, this year marks Prince Edward's first time riding in the parade. (More on that here.)

Traditionally, all of these royals have ridden on horses because of their positions as royal colonels of the Household Division, the royal guards who take part in Trooping the Colour. It's likely particularly enjoyable for Princess Anne, though. Like her mother. the late Queen Elizabeth—who also used to ride a horse in the Trooping the Colour parade—Anne loves horses.

And her affection for the animal isn't just a hobby—the princess had an accomplished equestrian career. In 1976, Anne competed in the Olympic Games, riding one of her mother's horses. Anne passed this passion down to her daughter, Zara Tindall. (Tindall's father, Captain Mark Phillips, was also a gold medal-winning Olympic equestrian, so she got the horse-loving gene both sides.)

Tindall would become an even more celebrated royal equestrian than her mother, after taking home the silver medal at the 2012 Olympics in London. And after marrying a former rugby player, Mike Tindall, no one would be surprised if her children became award-winning athletes, too.

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