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Parental restrictions are few, the emphasis being on freedom and a sense of normalcy. She attended Benenden School, which caters to girls of the British upper class and is rated exclusive but by no means cloistered. No great shakes academically, Anne failed to qualify for a university this fall, but no one seemed to care, least of all the princess. "When Anne says she is intellectually lazy," said her former housemistress at Benenden, "I can't refute it." So far the young princess has been content to ride, sail, party, ski and tend to the ribbon-cutting chores that...
...mode has never been especially mod. In fact, Britain's catty fashion press has sometimes accused Princess Anne, 16, of being somewhat dowdy. Now it seems that Anne has turned into a bit of a bird. On her way back to Benenden School in Kent after holidays, the princess showed up in London's Liverpool Street station wearing shiny black boots and a quasi-miniskirt cut three inches above the knee. Of course she still has a long way to escalate before raising any eyebrows in the Chelsea group, but all the same the Fleet Street headlines blared...
...that goes dapple for Princess Anne, 13, who comes from such horsy stock that Dad is sporting an arm in a sling as a result of his third polo spill in 13 months. His only daughter put on a J.G.S. (school slang for jolly good show) representing her school, Benenden, for the first time at a local meet. She took a piebald named Jester over the jumps to win a red rosette (winning team) in the combined competition, picked up yellow (tie third) in junior dressage...
School bells were ringing, and young royalty was off to rub elbows with untitled folk. Britain's Princess Anne, 13, and Jordan's Princess Basma, 12, were at boarding school at Benenden, 42 miles from London. Would they make their own beds? panted reporters. Of course. And would Radcliffe's first royal student, Sweden's Princess Christina, 20? Yes, she nodded wearily to Boston newsmen. Having attended to the questions, the blonde princess set about orienting herself, and so did Harvard students. Turned out that pretty Christina had brought along from Sweden her own toughest competition...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...
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