Princess Anne accounted for a quarter of all royal engagements in the first six months of the year, according to new analysis by MailOnline.
The Princess Royal’s recovery from a suspected head injury over the weekend will mean a forced dismissal for Britain’s busiest royals.
There will also be another drop in the family’s tally of official duties in a year when both the King and Princess of Wales have been receiving cancer treatment.
Anne, 73, is expected to have at least the rest of this week off and has postponed a planned official visit to Canada after suffering a concussion and head injuries.
She is believed to have been injured by a horse’s leg or head while walking around her Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire on Sunday night.
Ana has accounted for a quarter of all royal engagements in the first six months of 2024.
Princess Anne will miss eight engagements in the UK and a visit to Canada this week.
The King’s sister is understood to have spent a second night in Southmead Hospital in Bristol after apparently suffering memory loss as a result of the incident.
In May, MailOnline revealed how Anne had kept the show on tour for the House of Windsor for the first third of the year.
At the time, she accounted for one in three commitments among the family’s 11 working members who perform official duties at taxpayer expense.
That proportion has fallen slightly following the return to public duties of the King and Prince William, who took time off to care for their wife and children when Kate underwent abdominal surgery in January.
But Anne is still miles ahead of any other member of the family and is one of only four royals to have completed more than 100 engagements this year.
So far he has completed 252 commitments, which represents 26 percent of the family’s total. The next busiest is Prince Edward at 143, then the King at 121, followed by Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh at 118.
What is also clear is that Ana, more than anyone, is the royalty who leaves the palaces to travel the country and meet the public.
The King, who has had to be careful not to compromise his immune system, has taken on just 19 per cent of his engagements outside the royal residences, while 84 per cent of Anne’s have been outside the palaces.
The Princess Royal arrives by carriage on the third day of Royal Ascot last Thursday.
The Princess Royal with Lady Gabriella Kingston at Royal Ascot on Tuesday
The Princess Royal and Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence at Windsor Castle on Monday
Patricia Treble, who compiled the detailed analysis for Mail Online, said of Anne: “Her overall pace over the first six months of the year has not slowed since 2023.
‘In the first six months of 2023 it made 255 commitments; To date in 2024 he has made 252.
‘With only four royals making more than 100 engagements so far this year, their absence from the Court Circular will quickly appear in the data.
‘This year their contribution has been greater than usual, as the King and Prince and Princess of Wales have made far fewer commitments than usual.
“As a result, the Princess Royal’s share of the overall royal workload in 2024 is seven percentage points higher than her share in 2023 (19 percent).”
As of June 23, the Royal Family had made 952 commitments recorded in the Court Circular.
But they reached that number of commitments on May 21 of last year, so they are a month behind.
May, normally one of the peak periods in the monarchy’s calendar, was by far the busiest month of the year for the Royal Family.
This is despite numerous engagements having to be canceled due to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision on 22 May to call a general election for 4 July.
This year, the royals made 271 engagements in May, almost on par with the 294 they had in 2023.
The Princess Royal during the Trooping the Color ceremony in London on June 15
Princess Anne honors Michael McGrath, chief executive of the Muscle Help Foundation, by naming him a Member of the Order of the British Empire at Windsor Castle on June 12.
The total is also much higher than the monthly average of 136 for the rest of 2024.
Meanwhile, the King has been gradually increasing his workload. But his figure of 121 as of June 23 is still only half of the 242 he made in the first six months of 2023.
In the first quarter of the year, Carlos III fulfilled an average of 12 commitments per month. In April, 16. In May, 51, of which 38 were hearings or meetings, etc. As of June 23, he has turned 21.
Yesterday, Anne was visited by her daughter Zara Tindall in hospital.
The Olympic rider and her brother, Peter Phillips, were at the estate when Anne was injured, but it is not known who raised the alarm.
Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence visited the hospital for lunch earlier in the day and said the princess was “doing well”. Coming out of the driveway, Anne’s husband said, “She’s doing well, slowly but surely.”
The Princess Royal speaking to Chelsea pensioners during the Royal Hospital Chelsea Founders’ Day ceremony on June 6.
The Princess Royal shakes hands with Brigadier Anna Kimber, director of the D-Day 80 programme, at the Bayeux war cemetery in Normandy, France, on June 5.
It was the first update on Anne’s condition since Monday, when Buckingham Palace said she had suffered minor head injuries and a concussion.
When asked if he had brought anything for the princess, Sir Tim replied: “Just a few small gifts from home.”
He was wearing an open-necked shirt and jacket, and was carrying what appeared to be a blue cooler bag.
Anne, a skilled horsewoman who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, is believed to have been kicked by a horse as she walked through her Gatcombe Park estate on Sunday.
Emergency services and an air ambulance attended and the woman was treated at the scene in Gloucestershire.
The princess was taken by road to Southmead Hospital for tests, treatment and observation. She was accompanied by Sir Tim, her second husband, whom she married in 1992.
Princess Anne missed the state banquet at Buckingham Palace last night, hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla for Japanese Emperor Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako.
Guests are seated during the state banquet at Buckingham Palace in London yesterday.
On Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer sent their best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Monday: “The Princess Royal has suffered minor injuries and a concussion following an incident on the Gatcombe Park estate yesterday afternoon.
‘His Royal Highness remains in Southmead Hospital, Bristol, as a precautionary measure for observation and is expected to make a full and rapid recovery.
“The King has been kept closely informed and joins the entire royal family in sending their warmest love and best wishes to the princess for a speedy recovery.”
Although the cause of the injuries is not confirmed, Anne’s medical team has said her head injuries are consistent with a possible impact from a horse’s head or legs.
The princess is understood to have been walking within the protected perimeter of Gatcombe Park when the incident occurred and no other people are believed to have been involved.