Today is Princess Anne’s 75th birthday. She apparently requested that Buckingham Palace not make any kind of fuss, but they still organized a handful of briefings and complimentary coverage of the monarchy’s longtime “workhorse.” BP’s communications office also decided to make a listicle of “75 Facts About Princess Anne on her 75th birthday.” They published the list on Thursday, one day before Anne’s birthday, only no one in the office bothered to proofread it? Or they used AI? Or maybe they’re soft-launching some interesting biographical information about Anne and her husband Tim Laurence. Because the actual royal.uk site claimed that Tim Laurence has two children and Anne is their stepmother.
Buckingham Palace has been left red-faced after a birthday tribute to Princess Anne didn’t go according to plan. The Palace had released a list of 75 facts about the Princess Royal in honour of her upcoming 75th birthday on tomorrow. However, one so-called fact caused quite a stir among Royal enthusiasts, leading to the entire post being removed.
The contentious point was number fourteen on the list, which claimed that Anne, King Charles’ sister, had two stepchildren from her second marriage to Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence. The Palace even named these supposed stepchildren as Tom and Amy Laurence.This information was quickly debunked by eagle-eyed fans who pointed out that Sir Tim, a retired Royal Navy officer, had not been previously married before tying the knot with Princess Anne in December 1992. Furthermore, there has never been any mention of him having children from a previous relationship.
Anne herself has two children, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, from her first marriage to Captain Mark Phillips. Despite the Palace removing the page from its website, it still appears on Google, and the tweet has also been deleted, reports the Express
One user who noticed the mistake commented: “#14 Tom and Amy Laurence? Either I’ve gone crazy or Sir Tim Laurence has secret children.” They added: “Pretty sure this is an error, but how did that happen? I can’t think of any Tom & Amy siblings in the extended royal family.”
Another chimed in with: “That would be the best hidden royal secret ever.” A third person disputed: “This is not true. Sir Tim does not have children from a previous relationship.”
A fourth individual queried: “That is so odd? Could it be an AI mistake? Someone at BP made that list with chatgpt but didn’t check it? Otherwise that would be one heck of a plot twist.”
I don’t even know what conspiracy to spin here. It’s left me questioning whether Tim really does have two children and someone in the palace let the cat out of the bag. It’s possible this was a bizarre AI mixup, but A) why would Buckingham Palace use AI for “facts about Anne” and B) why and how would AI spit out such an outlandish, never-before-heard conspiracy about Tim’s secret children AND THEIR NAMES???
#14 Tom and Amy Laurence? Either I’ve gone crazy or Sir Time Laurence has secret children.
Pretty sure this is an error, but how did that happen? I can’t think of any Tom & Amy siblings in the extended royal family. https://t.co/T02ezEoNBw pic.twitter.com/InPT4kx9Cg
— Gert's Royals (@Gertsroyals) August 13, 2025
🎉 75 today! Thank you for all of your kind birthday wishes for The Princess this week.
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Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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- The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence depart the annual Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in London. Picture date: Monday March 13, 2023.,Image: 762521294, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Jordan Pettitt / Avalon
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- Windsor, UK, 19 June 2023: (left to right) The Duchess of Edinburgh, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and the Princess Royal depart the annual Order of the Garter Service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire.,Image: 784271354, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS ***, *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Yui Mok / Avalon
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- Windsor, Berkshire, UK, 27 February 2024: (front row left to right) the Duke of Gloucester, Admiral Sir Tim Laurence and the Princess Royal are joined by (second row left to right) Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Sarah Duchess of York, Lady Helen Taylor and the Duke of Kent attend a thanksgiving service for the life of King Constantine of the Hellenes at St George’s Chapel, in Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Constantine II, who died on January 10, 2023 was the last King of Greece, reigning from 1964 to 1974.,Image: 851426363, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Jonathan Brady / Avalon
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- The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence speak to guests as they attend the Not Forgotten Association Annual Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in London. The Not Forgotten Association is a tri-service charity which provides entertainment, leisure and recreation for the serving wounded, injured or sick and for ex-service men and women with disabilities.,Image: 873924249, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Victoria Jones / Avalon
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- Princess Anne and her husband Tim Lawrence ride in a carriage after attending the Order of the Garter service, which is held at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England, Monday, June 17, 2024. The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior British Order of Chivalry, established by King Edward III nearly 700 years ago. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool),Image: 882392199, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Pool, *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Kirsty Wigglesworth / Avalon
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- The Duke of Kent, Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence seen on the Palace balcony for a RAF fly-by during Trooping the colour on Saturday 14 June 2025 at Buckingham Palace, London. Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards Troop their Colour in the presence of His Majesty The King. Over 1350 soldiers of the Household Division and King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery took part, including over 300 musicians from the Massed Bands.. Picture,Image: 1010947890, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights – Julie Edwards/Avalon.Red, Model Release: no, Credit line: Julie Edwards/Avalon
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- Service of Thanksgiving to mark 200 years of the RNLI at Westminster Abbey, London Featuring: Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence Where: London, United Kingdom When: 04 Mar 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Service of Thanksgiving to mark 200 years of the RNLI at Westminster Abbey, London Featuring: Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence Where: London, United Kingdom When: 04 Mar 2024 Credit: Cover Images
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- Members of the royal family on Day Three of Royal Ascot Meeting 2025 Featuring: Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence Where: Ascot, United Kingdom When: 19 Jun 2025 Credit: Cover Images
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- The 2025 Royal Welsh Show held at the Royal Welsh Showground returns to Builth Wells, where the show continues to be the biggest agricultural show in Europe Featuring: Princess Anne inside the Horticulture tent Where: Builth Wells, Wales, United Kingdom When: 21 Jul 2025 Credit: Joann Randles/Cover Images
They really are…run by idiots.
Incompetent royal clown circus. Such idiots
I think this came from Willy & company ’cause…. it’s stupid and there’s ‘logic’:
* This gets spread around.
* In a fit of pique, Anne quits royal work
* Willy and Katie start looking ‘better’ because there’s fewer people doing things, so it actually looks like they’re doing more
* So they go on another vacation.
…I love making conspiracy theories up like this.
Or Willy has two secret children and they threw that on Anne and Tim. That raises eyebrows, gets debunked and when Williams kids come out it’s just – ugh. Again?
Jason. Obviously.
👀 I can go with that 🍿
Aaahhh, the old every accusation is a confession trick.
Ooooh, I like that.
Or both. We get both! They’re both true!
I went down the rabbithole of Willy’s ex Jecca and apparently she gave birth to “Wolf” six months before she married Jonathan Baillie. Wiki says they have two kids.
Also, given Lazy’s summer video, this is Jecca introducing her dad. What a different life Willy would have had, had he chosen an accomplished woman instead of a doormat.
She’s also doing a PhD now…ironic how nearly all of Willy’s exes are accomplished except for Lazy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkdBTIi8pM
@Blogger, I think, other women who had their own education, jobs, ambitions didn’t want to marry Will. You get access and money, but also your reputation can be ruined by tabloids. Kate having nothing to do was the reason she was happy to marry into BRF.
Whether this was an AI slip-up or something else, it’s fascinating to watch it evolve into a discussion of potential secret children for others in the RF.
Well, if you’ve ever seen AI generated stuff, it can get pretty wild.
That is absolutely what happened here. Lazy staffers used AI and didn’t even proofread it.
Came here to say this . People used some AI and never checked it. Making up specific facts is a known flaw in how AI works , and is apparently not really fixable – models actually make up more stuff as they get more sophisticated .
Yep – already bookmarked this as an example for my college students as to why they shouldn’t rely on AI for their essays or exam prep!
100% – I’m forcing myself to use AI here and there because I’ll get left behind if I don’t, but literally just this morning I had to correct Claude.ai on what I thought was a very easy task to space out some milestones evenly. It’s like having the world’s sloppiest intern…
It’s called an AI hallucination when AI just makes up random facts. Someone very junior or very stupid was put in charge of this task.
AI fully hallucinates things. I looked up Jack White’s children recently after I saw him performing with his daughter. And the AI summaries gave him a whole extra child and wife. There were names, dates, and everything but it was all wrong. I had to pick my way very carefully through the garbage to find the correct info.
I can easily see an AI generated list coming up with an imaginary family for Princess Anne’s husband. The palace needs to get a person to do the work next time instead of cutting corners.
Right! You should see what AI did to Maria Von Trapp.
What did poor Maria receive? And how about the Captain?
They gave her two extra husbands after the Captain died, and she was having kids into her sixties. 🤔
I knew that Maria was a vamp 😂
LMAO, @Blogger! 😆🤣
Could be just a glitch, or some other Tim Laurence and his two kids are laughing their ass off.
Hallucination is a bad term for what’s going on here. It gives the illusion of consciousness, which ChatGTP, etc do not have. It’s just making up kids because it seems most likely that a man of his age would have kids from a previous relationship
Yes, AI may not have hallucinations but it surely gives its users them. And each search gives something different, so everyone gets their own special wrongness.
Yeah, ‘hallucination’ is a PR term for ‘error’. AI tech bros know that it’s harder to sell AI if they have to talk about the high error rate, so they sell it as ‘hallucinations’ that make it feel more sophisticated and human-esque than it actually is.
This story seems as factual and rigorously verified as most of the drivel disseminated by the Palaces (incompetent gray men) about the Sussexes on a daily basis.
That checks out.
Were C & C pissed at the “best queen we’ll never have” coverage and stirred up dirt (true or false) about Anne’s family?
They’ve done worse to his sons, no reason to think his sister is immune.
C & C are jealous petty a-holes after all.
And his 1st wife.
The magenta dress is really nice.
OMG they invented names. Is their someone famous with a similar name and chatgpt got confused?
I would be more inclined to believe Anne has secret half-siblings somewhere. QE2 would have wanted that kept secret. But why would they want to keep sir Laurance’s children a secret??
Thought it could be the kids from her FIRST HUSBAND.
Poor Tim. Unless he’s been living a double life, Tom and Amy has never appeared with him.
I think Mark Phillips had a daughter from an affair when he was married to Anne.
Penelope’s daughter looks awfully similar to William.
Apparently they are all lazy and can’t even write a paragraph without using AI. They have staff and this is the shit that gets put out there because the staff are as lazy and lax and don’t bother to read before they hit send.
Secret children would mean secret wife and that doesn’t seem likely.
Some friends of mine, who were selling their historic townhouse, used AI to write a blurb about the property. It was beautifully expressed but all the facts about the house were wrong.
This is what happens when you underpay staff and hire Tim-Nice-But-Dims
Either they issue a denial and explain how this happened or it’s true. Which would be utterly wild.
It would liven up dim Tim. That man was too strait-laced for his own good.
Not so much. He did write some pretty racy love letters to a married Princess Anne.
Tampon level racy?
The fact that his letters got stolen show how much the tabloids are above the law.
Nope. Tampon level remains in a class all it’s own.
Anywho, I have doubts about his black eye…and her “the horse kicked my head”….
Wow 🫨…welp😬…🎶Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon …it comes & goes…it comes & goes…🎶🤣
Mark Phillips, her first husband, did father a daughter in New Zealand with some woman while he was there for some horse thing. This happened while he was married to Anne. Zara and Peter both have a half-sister in NZ they’ve never met and Mark has refused to meet her or acknowledge her. I’ve always felt so bad for the NZ sister, especially since Mark went on to have another daughter during his second marriage and Peter and Zara both have a relationship with this other half-sister.
So maybe the AI thing got that confused… or Timothy really does have secret children we don’t know about!
Really sad. The Kiwi daughter has no fault for what her father and mother did. I have no respect for a man who doesn’t acknowledge his child.
Yes, how DOES something like this happen??
My job has less than 15,000 people, and the reviews that a list like this would get are extensive! Who’s running comms over there? Did Anne herself review it? Did the person who wrote/generated it not know Anne’s history themselves?
They’re all rhetorical questions, obviously, but people would legit get FIRED at a regular company for this. Because you’re either too sloppy to catch the huge mistake or just nuclear to expose the secret.
I vote for nuclear.
Occam’s razor points to AI-generation and lazy reviews, but the nuclear option is certainly more fun. But I’m not sure who would do it and what would be the motive?
You come for the queen(‘s daughter), you best not miss. She’s pretty unimpeachable in the reputation department, and most of the gossipy courtiers understand that Anne’s “work ethic” is just about the only thing lending legitimacy to their whole operation. Especially with Charles’s ongoing health.
While Andrew, Will, and Charles all have scandals I’m sure they’d love to distract from, they’ve certainly been in worse scandal seasons over the years. Plus, “secret grown adult children” isn’t nearly as scandalous in 2025 as it would have been 30 years ago. I always enjoy with the blood royals light each other on fire, but there probably isn’t enough logical tinder for this one, unfortunately.
Oh I think Willy definitely has extra kids out there (allegedly!)- Jecca’s son, Marina’s daughter, Rose’s daughter, and possibly others but I think the kids are only with women in the aristo set. It’s easier to control and hide secret kids if revealing them would be mutually assured public destruction.
Harry has got to know more by now about all of Willy’s dalliances. Every accusation is projection when it comes to the royals (and MAGA politicians in the states).
Who’s Marina? Not Marina Hyde the Guardian columnist and lover of Piers? The only other Marina I know would be the long dead Princess Marina.
Maybe Marina Hansbury, Rose’s sister is who the commenter is referring to idk?
He had a threesome?! 👀
Sisters, I suppose, hold a certain attraction…
Eh at the end of the day all anyone knows is that William had a massive freakout about the rose rumors and overcompensated by trading negative stories about the sussexes to cover up the rumors.
Princess marina had a namesake granddaughter I believe through princess Alexandra
Hopefully somewhere some siblings named Tom and Amy Laurence are having a good laugh about this with their dad, a different Tim entirely.
That’s weird. Doesn’t Anne’s ex husband have other children? Is this a mix up with that or is there really a secret family out there, lol.Someone pointed out that this confirms that the Palace does use AI.
Embarrassing. Apparently the BP deny using AI but it’s clear that somebody in the Communications Office did to make such a mistake. It’s is very striking that BP staff are not familiar with the lives of their principals but people expected Meghan, an American, to know everything about the Royal Family before she married Harry.
Wow that is embarrassing
So BP did deny it on the record to the Mail and blamed a staffer who sourced it from an allegedly incorrect “Women and Home” web article that they suspect used AI but they, BP, DEFINITELY did not use AI…. I can’t with these people… the staffer is question is so removed from the principal they are speaking for that they don’t know he doesn’t have children?
They are so gloriously inept, it’s hilarious.
I would have liked to see Anne’s reaction to this. She is always dressed so beautifully (goals).
Her clothes are made for her. She’s spoken before about how when she travels she’ll buy bolts of fabric to bring home & then have someone make things for her.
I just want to say that is absolutely how AI works. It will totally and completely make up facts. That’s how you get lawyers using AI and filing things in court where fake cases are getting cited.
More made up facts,, the “revealing” that Philip had a fling, back in the day, with Fergies ‘ mother.