Princess Anne is often dubbed the hardest-working royal member, but she is seemingly not the hardest-working member of her own household.
King Charles III's younger sister, who got separated from her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, in 1992, has a different style of making the home and hosting guests.
Living her life with her popular dry wit and no-nonsense attitude, the Princess Royal's unconventional hosting style has shaken the internet.
Anne, 76, has a funny way of making her dinner guests leave when she wants to wrap things up, and here are some of Her Royal Highness's perfect exit strategies, which don't sound rude but still work without losing dignity.
The 9:15 pm exit strategy
Once speaking about her unconventional hosting style, she savagely revealed, "After all, one wants everyone out of the house by 9.15 pm at the latest."
She continued, "For pudding, I pass them a choc ice to eat in the car."
While traditional royal dinners can stretch late into the night, the most disciplined royal always prioritises her values and time, as she expects from her guests for a quick turnaround.
The infamous choc ice routine
For those unversed, the famous choc ice is not just a regular royal dessert; it is the iconic strategy, which is based on a vanilla ice cream covered in milk chocolate.
This eighties dessert is also pocket-friendly and costs around £1 to £2 in local British supermarkets for a box of eight.
The move may show her effort to enforce her strict timeline; Princess Anne uses a highly unusual dessert tactic.
Instead of a formal final course served at the table, she hands her guests a choc ice, a mass-market, chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream bar that retails for pocket change in British supermarkets.
According to royal experts, this strategy was usually used in cars when she gave it to her guests to "eat in the car" as a polite gesture telling them that the evening is over.
Budget-friendly, no-fuss menus
Late Queen Elizabeth II’s only daughter is not a fan of expensive cutlery to impress her honourable guests over the table; she reportedly rejected culinary decadence.
Instead, she approves simple, ultra-frugal meals. Guests at her table are often treated to straightforward, practical British fare like pork pies or tinned meat pies from the well-known budget supermarket brand Fray Bentos.
Function over luxury
Anne’s hosting style perfectly mirrors her broader approach to life and royal duty: it prioritises function, speed, and zero waste over optics and luxury. There is no lingering over expensive liqueurs or dragging out conversations; it is hospitality executed with military precision.
Well, King Charles III has different hosting styles and dinner party habits in his public reputation rather than his sister, Princess Anne.
