HRH The Princess Anne was created Princess Royal in 1987. She was assigned her Label in 1962 at the age of 12 and at the same or similar time as her elder cousins TRH The Princes William and Richard of Gloucester and Prince Michael of Kent. She has gained the reputation of being a member of the Royal Family who will not be left out "just because" she's a girl. She was the first female Member of the British Royal Family other than a reigning queen or queen consort for many centuries to be awarded the Order of the Garter and, also, the Order of the Thistle. (The story goes that, in true form, she insisted on carrying the initials KG as a Knight of the Garter rather than LG as Lady of the Garter which had been introduced. However, HRH Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy is also a KG as the category they both fall under is Royal Knights, which is separate to the main body of appointees which lists Knights and Ladies Companion.) She had been awarded the GCVO in 1974 after a kidnapping attempt was made on her. The man didn't get very far...
Having said all that, Her Royal Highness received a relatively unusual Label... A red Heart between two St George's Crosses. Similar Labels had been assigned - to HRH The Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, HRH The Princess Maud (later HM Queen Maud of Norway) and HRH The Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex - but not in this particular combination. The previous Princess Royal - HRH The Princess Mary - was still alive and had equally unusually and uniquely been assigned a Label with three St George's Crosses. Maybe Princess Anne was assigned a Heart between two Crosses because her mother had received a Tudor Rose between two Crosses before her accession (see a previous Blog) and there was the outside possibility that, should she abdicate, she would revert to this Label. Likewise, the Label for HRH The Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse - namely a Rose (here a red Rose, but maybe changed to a Tudor Rose) between two Ermine Spots - might have been an option, considering her descent through her father and the fact that one of her middle names is Alice. But no...
Maybe as befits a Princess Royal, but having already acknowledged her own determination, Princess Anne was, as far as I know, the first member of the British Royal Family other than the Monarch or The Prince of Wales to have a different, Scottish-specific Coat of Arms. For a while she was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (as was The Duke of York). The reproduction here is a fine example of heraldic art with Her Royal Highness' Label over Scotland in the first and fourth Quarters (and on the Crest, too) and the Chain of the Order of the Thistle around the Shield (as well as the Garter).
HRH The Duke of York's Label was assigned to him around the same time as his sister received hers. As the second son of the Sovereign he received what has in recent generations become the traditional label of three Points with a blue Anchor in the middle. In heraldic parlance this would be blazoned as an Anchor azure. This had been assigned to both previous Dukes of York as second sons the Monarch but who later became HM King George V (whose elder brother, HRH Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, had died) and HM King George VI (whose elder brother, HM King Edward VIII, had abdicated). As well as maybe having a significant meaning for The Queen, being her father's Label, maybe this tradition started with King George V because of his naval career and then brushed off on Prince Andrew who was the first high-profile
royal for a number of years to have an active military career.
Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for his younger brother, HRH The Earl of Wessex. (But that's another story...) Prince Edward was assigned a label of three points (again as the child of a sovereign) with the centre Point charged with a Tudor Rose. This was assigned in 1983 at the age of 19. This, in my opinion, is a most unusual Label for a male member of the Royal Family as Roses have previously only been assigned to female members. It was announced at the time of his wedding to Miss Sophie Rhys-Jones, that while he was appointed Earl of Wessex (a pun on E.A.R.L. being his initials) he will, in due course, be elevated to Duke of Edinburgh, hence taking over many roles from his father such as the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. This being the case, there might have been an argument for a black Castle to be assigned, as in both the Duke's and the actual city's Coats of Arms. The Earl and Countess of Wessex did arrange for a badge, namely a Tudor Rose with Thistle Heads growing out from each corner to acknowledge the Scottish nature of his/their future title, but I can find no image of it online.