YOU would think Prince William’s recent wedding and this summer’s Diamond Jubilee may have thrust the Royal family into the spotlight once again.

But that was clearly not the case at an annual point-to-point meeting in Herefordshire last weekend as the Queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips was initially refused entry when an official failed to recognise her.

County businessman Tim Hinton was helping out at Saturday’s North Hereford Hunt event at Whitwick Manor just off the main Hereford to Worcester road near the Newtown crossroads.

But when Princess Anne’s daughter, who is 13th in line to the throne, arrived in a “small car” claiming her mother had her ticket, the volunteer official thought she may have been trying to pull a fast one.

For the full story see this week's Hereford Times.