Queen Elizabeth II and husband Prince Philip have four children together: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. She has reigned since her father’s death in 1952 and has a reputation as being the most hardworking royal, despite being 28 years beyond the normal age of retirement, and this work ethic has been passed to her children. The Queen completed more than 150 engagements from January to June, while Princess Anne undertook more than 250 engagements for the same period. But what is it about these two strong women that has so inspired Zara Tindall?

Zara Tindall is the Queen’s eldest granddaughter and the only daughter of her mother Princess Anne and Mark Phillips.

The 38-year-old is, like her parents, an accomplished equestrian and Olympian.

Zara won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006 and was voted the 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British television viewing public, an award her mother won in 1971.

She was appointed an MBE in the 2007 New Year Honours for her services to equestrianism and in 2012 carried an Olympic flame at Cheltenham Racecourse on her horse Toytown.

She was also awarded a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, presented to her by her mother.

Zara was sixth in line at the time of her birth, but because of laws relating to male preference in terms of succession, she is now 18th in line to the throne, behind her other cousins and their families.

While her mother, Princess Anne, and the Queen, are both working royals, Zara, like her brother, is not and instead works as an equestrian.

In fact she is currently competing in the Burghley Horse Trials on her horse Class Affair in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

But why does Zara credit her grandmother and mother for providing her with such a strong work ethic?

During a BBC Breakfast interview in 2018, she spoke of how she inherited her hard work ethic from the Queen and Princess Anne.

The House of Windsor’s 15 working royals, including the Queen, her children, grandchildren and her cousins, undertook 3,793 engagements last year.

The Queen undertook 283 engagements in 2018, she was only beaten by her children, Prince Charles with 507 engagements, Princess Anne with 518 engagements, Prince Edward with 463 engagements and the Duke of York with 394 engagements.

The annual survey of the Royal Family’s public engagements was released in the customary letter to the Times from the paper’s ‘unofficial royal archivist’, Tim O’Donovan, who has conducted the survey for almost 40 years.

Zara Tindall has in no way been held back in life by the lack of a royal title.

Instead of royal work, she followed her mother’s footsteps into the world of equestrian sports.

The talented horse-lover, who does not receive money from the Civil List, instead earns her living competing in horse competitions, even winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics.

Part of her money also derives from lending her name to a number of brands, including Land Rover and Rolex, and she has co-designed her own outdoor clothing range.

Zara credits her strong work ethic with her famous mum and dad, and said: “I probably get it from my parents.

“Papa said to me, ‘If you want to get to the top you’ve got to do it properly, and if you want to stay at the top it’s even harder.’”

Princess Anne was the first member of the British Royal Family to have competed in the Olympic Games and her ex-husband is also an Olympic gold-medallist horseman.

Kevin S. MacLeod, the Canadian Secretary to the Queen, said of Anne in 2014: “Her credo is, ‘Keep me busy. I’m here to work. I’m here to do good things. I’m here to meet as many people as possible’.”

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