A question for British Peas

That meshes with my recollection of stuff I read before Will and Kate got married.  

I thought Princess Anne deliberately chose that her children would not have titles even though they were eligible for them.

The lineage goes through the highest ranking royal parent. It does not matter if one parent is a commoner or not. Because Anne's daughter had a minuscule chance of getting the throne (all 3 of Anne's brother any and all male children would have to die first) she renounced her daughters title at birth.

Thank you! Interesting article. I wish I had been more of a Royal follower over the years. I know just enough to get me in trouble, not enough to be an expert.

Why do you think they got the shaft? To me it seems like they were released from a great burden. I don't see how that is getting the shaft. They are free to pursue what interests them personally instead of being restricted to what "befits a royal"  and yet they still have the connections and access to all the support they would have had if they had titles.   They are free to meet and marry as they choose instead of just among a select circle of people.  They can choose or decline charity activities based on their values instead of value to the whole royal image.  So I don't get what the down side is in your view.

It is because her parents did not want either her or her brother Peter to have titles.

Princess Anne's official title is The Princess Royal.  When she had Peter and Zara she decided that they shouldn't have titles.  

Where's jennyap when you need her - she is pretty knowledgeable about the Royal Family if I remember correctly but as I recall it was Princess Anne and Mark Phillips choice for their children. I know it isn't anything to do with Cap't Mark Phillips being a commoner nor were they shafted    I believe they thought it would help to give their children a degree of normality in their upbringing.

No I don't think it would have altered Princess Anne's thinking on this.  She is the second child of The Queen and succession goes down the line of the first born so the more children William and Kate have the further down the line of succession Peter and Zara go.  Anne's husband didn't/doesn't hold a title, and didn't want a courtesy title and it seems the decision about titles for the children were also decided then.

After having been in London when Prince George was born, and seeing all the crazy insane press, if what she did gets rid of any fraction of that she did them a favor.

I was so, so sad about how crazy the press went last year. I mean here this young couple, brand new first time parents, bring their child out of the hospital by the 'front' door ( I'm sure they had options to avoid that ) and took the time to show him to the press, and still it was crazy. The press set up about 50 trucks with fifty generators that must have hummed non stop for god knows how long right next to where they were living with their brand new baby. And those were the 'normal' press people. Sime crazy yahoos were claiming the walls and trees around the home to take pictures of the windows they might be behind. Crazy camera people lined the streets going in and out swarming any remotely fancy car that even slowed down near the driveway. And since there is a stop light right near there that was quite a few. I saw this all first hand because we happened to have a tour scheduled right there unknown to us they would stay there. I refused to look, to take my camera out or anything I was so appalled at what was going on. It was insane, and IMHO unfair. So yea if princess Anne save her children any measure of that then bravo!