“We are both map and chart people. We like to know where we are and see where we are going. We both follow, with great enthusiasm, the Scottish rugby team… as you may have noticed they don’t always win,” he said.
However, he admitted there were some passions Anne enjoys that he does not share.
“She grew up with horses, horses have been part of her life, it’s not something I share with her. Sadly I’ve never been bitten by the horse bug.”
A light-hearted remark about Anne’s first marriage
The documentary also featured a moment of gentle humour from Sir Timothy as he joked about Princess Anne’s first husband, Captain Mark Phillips.
Captain Phillips had served as a Second Lieutenant in the 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards and steadily rose through the ranks. By the time he married Anne in 1973, he was acting as a Captain. He later became a personal aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II before retiring from the army in 1978.
Anne and Mark had two children together, Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall. The couple separated in 1989 and divorced in 1992.