Anne remained under observation at a Bristol hospital “as a precautionary measure,” the palace said in a statement, and her planned engagements for the week would be postponed. That means she won’t attend a state banquet with the emperor and empress of Japan. She had also been scheduled to visit Canada.
“The King has been kept closely informed and joins the whole Royal Family in sending his fondest love and well-wishes to the princess for a speedy recovery,” the palace said.
Anne, 73, is one of the most popular and hardest-working members of her family, consistently attending the most royal events each year. She is also a keen horsewoman and competed in the 1976 Olympic Games as a member of the British equestrian team. She was on horseback for the king’s birthday parade on June 15.
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The source said that Anne’s husband, Timothy Laurence, and her two children, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, were on the estate at the time of the incident on Sunday. Her husband accompanied her to the hospital. It was not clear who called emergency services.
Several members of the British royal family have been in and out of hospitals in recent months. Both Charles and Catherine, Princess of Wales, had medical procedures in the hospital, which is where doctors discovered they had cancer.
The palace has not revealed what type of cancer either of them have. Catherine, who was in a carriage for the king’s birthday parade, said she hoped to join “a few public engagements over the summer,” but added that “I am not out of the woods yet.”
One of the horse’s in the parade was among those that galloped through central London earlier in April after being startled by construction work.
