Does a video on social media show Britain's Princess Anne's authentic public statement that she rejects the idea of bowing to Queen Camila? No, that's not true: In that clip, the sound was added over a series of shots, but the video never showed Princess Anne actually saying what was attributed to her. No credible media organization reported such a declaration.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) on TikTok published on April 29, 2025. In it, a female voice-over said:
i will never bow to Camilla. As long as i am alive, i will be her nightmare. I am Princess Anne, and from beginning to end, I have never acknowledged Camilla's status. When she married into the royal family, I personally asked my mother for a special privilege to never have to bow to her. Even now that she has become queen, my stance remains unchanged.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot by Lead Stories)
Princess Anne (archived here) is the sister of King Charles III. The media would have covered that if she had made such a public statement.
However, a search for credible reports on Google News using the keywords seen here (archived here) did not produce any confirmation.
The 1-minute video showed signs that it was not authentic. For example, the sound was not synced with Princess Anne's lip movements in the first shot, and the rest of the clip was a sequence of different video fragments that did not show Princess Anne actually saying what was heard in the soundtrack.
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