Princess anne affair: did princess anne really have an affair?

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James Whittacker, a former royal reporter at the Daily Mirror told the 2002 Channel 4 documentary ‘The Real Princess Anne’ that Scotland Yard had "freaked out" at the affair. He


said: “When this came to the bosses, of course, at Scotland Yard ‒ they’re the people who supply the protection officers ‒ of course, they freaked out and Peter Cross was moved out very fast


indeed.” Eventually, the pair stopped seeing each other, and Mr Cross sold his story to the News of the World in 1984. Princess Anne also had another affair with her now-husband, Timothy


Laurence, which was brought into the public eye following the theft of some of their private letters.