Princess Anne and Family

Classic car showing on Princess Anne's Gatcombe estate

Held at the Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa, the International Horse Trials will take place over the weekend of the 19th to the 21st September and will feature a display of 40 Middlebridge Scimitars from across the UK and Europe. The marque, the first of which was manufactured in 1988, was rolled out over two years and only 78 cars were ever built, including one for The Princess Royal. The anniversary…
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Princess Anne and Family

Princess Anne: a right Royal yacht

Anne, who originally opened the club on April 1st 1998, will meet with the club’s Commodore, Barry Hughes, Chairman of the RYA region, Steve Gibbon, local councillors and members of the Yacht Club Cadet Section on September 23rd. She will launch a new Sailibility pontoon…
The Edinburghs

The Earl of Wessex to open new carbon footprint research facility

The £1 million facility, named The HIVE, is designed to support research into construction materials and will provide an environment to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings. The project is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). New building materials are developed in laboratories and then must be evaluated in full scale environments; the latter of…
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