Speaking on The Royals podcast with Roya and The Times’ Royal Editor Kate Mansey, she said: “You can just imagine Anne absolutely loathing being the centre of attention.

“She’ll have really disliked the fact that while her brother was hosting a state visit, a very high profile state visit, Anne was the main news of the day, because she loathes being centre of attention.”

Kate added: “And she would have wanted to be there to represent the family.”

Both went on to agree that despite the incident, Anne would still be undettered in her fondness of horses.

“She will definitely, I think, fingers crossed, when she comes out of hospital, I think she will be around horses very soon,” Roya added.

It’s not the first time the late Queen’s only daughter has suffered from a horse-related incident.

Back in 1976, during the Olympics in Montreal, her horse Goodwill failed to make one of the jumps on the course which caused her to fall.

Despite this, trooper Anne finished the event and later said: “As far as I’m concerned, the lights went out.” She went on to claim that if she had not fought to stay upright, she “wouldn’t be here now”.

In 2008, Princess Anne was also spotted using a walking stick after she was kicked by a horse at her home.