Anne travels abroad on behalf of the United Kingdom up to three times a year . She began to undertake overseas visits upon leaving secondary school , and accompanied her parents on a state visit to Austria in the same year . Her first tour of Australia was with her parents in 1970 , since which she has returned on numerous occasions to undertake official engagements as a colonel-in-chief of an Australian regiment , or to attend memorials and services , such as the National Memorial Service for victims of the Black Saturday bushfires in Melbourne , Australia , on 22 February 2009 . In 1990 she was the first member of the Royal Family to make an official visit to the Soviet Union when she went there as a guest of President Mikhail Gorbachev and his government
Black Saturday bushfires
Black Saturday bushfires
Anne, Princess Royal