Princess Anne is the hardest working royal

A survey published by The Times reveals that Princess Anne, the Queen’s only daughter is the hardest working member of the Royal Family. Her Royal Highness in 2006 carried out a total of 491 official engagements in the United Kingdom and another 104 overseas.

The Princess began to undertake royal engagements alone in 1968 at the age of eighteen.

The Prince of Wales undertook a total of 500 engagements in the United Kingdom and overseas. Most of the work done by the Prince of Wales was in aid of the 360 or so organisations associated with the Prince as well as The Prince's Charities, a charitable enterprise which raises over £100 million each year.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have shown no sign of decreasing their workload, both in their 80’s still undertake hundreds of engagements in the United Kingdom and overseas.

Her Majesty the Queen carried out several overseas visits in 2006 – in March she was on a Commonwealth visit to Singapore after being in Australia to open the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Official State Visits were paid to the three Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the autumn.

As a Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, the Duke of York undertook over 230 overseas official engagements in several countries including the United States, Canada, Mongolia, Kuwait, Vietnam and more recently, the Philippines – most of these engagements were to promote international trade and encourage overseas investment in the United Kingdom.

At home, the Duke of York carried out around 200 engagements in support of the Queen and the 100 or so organisations which are linked to the Prince.

Princes William is believed to have carried out 13 royal engagements.

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