Princess Royal visits British peacekeepers on Cyprus

Britain’s Princess Anne, left, speaks with Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides (AP)

The Princess Royal has cast aside the controversy surrounding her nephew the Duke of Sussex and carried on with her royal duties by visiting British soldiers serving with a United Nations peacekeeping force on Cyprus.

Anne planned to meet members of the Royal Logistic Corps, the army unit which she serves as colonel-in-chief, to recognise their service as one of the UN’s longest-serving peacekeeping forces.