Medical staff reveal the only members of the Royal Family Princess Anne will listen to in hospital

A nurse revealed that just three family members ‘can tell her to behave’
Hospital staff who have treated Princess Anne have revealed the only three members of the Royal Family she will listen to in order to make her “behave”.

Medics waiting on the Princess Royal’s every move at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary when she sustained a chest infection in 2016 recalled that, in Anne fashion, she “constantly wanted to get up and go home”.

It was only when key members of the Princess’s inner circle were drafted in that she was able to take their sage advice in hand – but once she went home, nurses were handed a generous thank you gift.

One nurse said: “She wasn’t a good patient… [She] thought she wasn’t really ill and constantly wanted to get up and go home.

“The best advice is to keep her husband, Sir Tim Laurence, or one of the children [Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall] on hand,” the medical worker told the Mail.

“They’re the only people who can tell her to behave.

“Once she was home, she was generous with thank you notes, flowers and a charitable donation.”

It will come as no surprise, then, that the first family member spotted rushing to Princess Anne’s side after she suffered minor head injuries and concussion from an impact from a horse’s head or legs on Sunday was Sir Tim.