Heartbreak for Princess Anne as she loses all 13 of her treasured foreign medals

PRINCESS Anne had to ­borrow a medal from Prince Charles after Buckingham Palace staff lost all 13 of her foreign gongs, we can reveal.

Anne, 72, had to use Charles’s Order of Logohu on the Platinum Jubilee trip to Papua New Guinea because her brother has the only other in existence.

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Princess Anne had to borrow a medal from Prince Charles after staff lost all 13 of her foreign gongs[/caption]

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Aides realised Anne’s had gone missing — along with honours from Canada, New Zealand, Chile and Japan[/caption]

They were bestowed in 2005, making the duo “Royal Chiefs” of the Commonwealth nation in the Pacific.

Aides realised Anne’s had gone missing — along with honours from Canada, New Zealand, Chile and Japan — shortly before she flew out in April.

They were boxed up and stored during the ongoing ten-year, £369million revamp of the palace.

A source said: “Anne couldn’t have represented the Queen without the order.

“It would have been hugely embarrassing and could have been considered an insult to her hosts.

“So she wore Prince Charles’s instead. No one noticed. It was all very Monty Pythonesque.”

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Anne had to use Charles’s Order of Logohu on the Platinum Jubilee trip to Papua New Guinea[/caption]