Why Kate Middleton’s life as a royal has been significantly more difficult: Princess Anne speaks candidly on Kate Middleton’s future, calling Meghan the “old fox.” “Who is going to be the next queen?”

Princess Anne, the only child and second child of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, is used to living in the spotlight and dealing with all the challenges and restrictions that come with being a member of the Royal Family.

Despite all the challenges she has faced herself, she has made an honest admission about why life as a royal has been much harder for Kate – the Princess of Wales – than it ever has been for her.

The 73-year-old Princess Anne puts this difference down to a couple of things, one being age and the other big factor being the advent of social media, which she thinks has made things much more “difficult” for younger royals like Kate and her husband Prince William.

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For a documentary released to mark Anne’s 70th birthday back in 2020 – called ‘Anne: The Princess Royal at 70’ – she made these comments about how life as a royal has changed for the younger generation.

She said: “The pressure that is applied to the younger members of the family, it’s always worse. That’s what the media is interested in. That’s hard sometimes to deal with. But there was no social media in my day, and it’s probably made it more difficult.”