PRINCESS Anne has confessed her true life's love and obsession is for LIGHTHOUSES.
The Princess Royal gushed about her unlikely fascination describing them as "a permanent image of man's tenacity, ingenuity and altruism".
She says lighthouses are man's achievement "within the face of the unrelenting energy and harmful drive of nature".
And describes lighthouses as being "constructed by males of braveness and imaginative and prescient" which have "turn out to be symbols of our willpower to co-exist with nature" including - "they nonetheless evoke emotions of safety and reliability".
The Princess Royal has been surprisingly obsessive about lighthouses since she was simply 5 years outdated.
Her odd passion, referred to as 'pharology', even featured in sequence 5 of The Crown when she took the Queen to a lighthouse within the first episode.
For a few years, Anne's ambition is to see all of the 208 lighthouses and main lights in Scotland. It's believed she is now properly previous the half-way level.
Anne, usually spends three days off the west coast on board the Northern Lighthouse Board vessel Pharos visiting extra beacons.
Anne, who has been patron of the NLB since 1993, began visiting lighthouses with the organisation the next 12 months.
She has additionally visited an unknown quantity privately on journeys together with her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.
The couple have a £500,000 yacht 'Ballochbuie' primarily based at Ardfern in Argyll - from the place they will discover much more Scottish islands and lighthouses.
In a foreword for a brand new version of Rock Lighthouses of Britain and Eire by Christopher Nicholson, the princess wrote: "Lighthouses are a permanent image of man's tenacity, ingenuity and altruism within the face of the unrelenting energy and harmful drive of nature.
"Over the centuries they've enabled many lives to be saved, and in so doing have turn out to be a part of our historical past, folklore and engineering achievements.
"From first building to modern-day automation, our lighthouses have been upgraded and modified to utilize advancing know-how, however they nonetheless stay beacons of sunshine in the dead of night.
"Constructed by males of braveness and imaginative and prescient they've turn out to be symbols of our willpower to co-exist with nature, and despite the fact that they're now not beneath the care of the lighthouse keeper, they nonetheless evoke emotions of safety and reliability.
"My affiliation with all the British lighthouse authorities stems from my very own deep and long-held curiosity in our lighthouses.
The accounts you'll learn on this e-book are an enchanting report of a bygone period, dogged willpower and humane achievement, so it's a e-book that I discovered completely absorbing."
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