Queen Elizabeth’s little-known gift to Princess Anne is worth at least £750k

Princess Anne maintains a Royal residence in London for convenience’s sake but considers Gatcombe Park her home. The Princess Royalshares the relatively unknown estate with her daughter, Zara, son-in-law, Mike Tindall and their three children, Mia, eight, Lena, four and Lucas, one.

Home since 1976

The late Queen Elizabeth II bought the sprawling country estate in the 1970s and gifted it to Princess Anne as a wedding present. Although never officially confirmed, My London reports the Queen paid somewhere between £500,000 and £750,000 for the 730-acre property. Nowadays, it's fair to assume that the estate is worth a whole lot more.

Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Philips, raised their two children, Peter Philips and Zara Tindall, on the country estate until their divorce in 1992, when he moved to a nearby farm before eventually moving to the United States.

Since her divorce, Princess Anne has maintained the estate with the help of her second husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Lawrence.

Home to the next generations

The Princess Royal’s daughter, Zara Tindall, moved to the estate with her husband, Mike Tindall, in 2013, before welcoming their first child, Mia, in 2014. Before moving to the Gatcombe estate, the couple lived at their Cheltenham home, which they sold.

Zara, Mike and their three children live atAston Farm,a lavish property located within the estate. According to Express, the estate is convenient for the Tindalls as it allows Zara, a former equestrian Olympian, to keep her horses stabled there. It is also the birthplace of Zara and Mike’s son, Lucas, as there wasn’t enough time to make it to the hospital.

According to Express, Peter Philips also lives at another property on the estate.

In an interview that marked Princess Anne’s 70th birthday, both Zara and Peter spoke about how they enjoyed leaving their children with their grandmother on Sundays. Zara joked:

We quite like leaving them on Sundays. We'll say, 'We'll pick them up later, bye'.

Peter said:

She (Princess Anne) loves seeing them ride, she loves having them around for Sunday lunches, doing all the sorts of stuff we used to do as kids. She now takes them to do this sort of things.

Sources used:

- My London: Royal Family: Enormous mansion the Queen bought for Princess Anne where Prince George, Charlotte and Louis' cousins live

- Hello!: Princess Anne's mammoth garden she shares with Mike and Zara Tindall revealed

- Express: Zara and Mike Tindall live up the road from Princess Anne - see couple's £750,000 home

- Express: Inside Princess Anne's adorable relationship and 'Sunday lunches' with her 5 grandchildren

- Express: Zara Tindall lived in Grade II listed Cheltenham property before idyllic Cotswolds home