Barry Soper: senior political correspondent on Princess Anne visiting New Zealand later in the month - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed Princess Anne will be visiting New Zealand later this month.

Princess Anne will be travelling to New Zealand at the request of the Army’s Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals, of which she is Colonel in Chief, to attend its 100th Anniversary celebrations.

Barry Soper, ZB's senior political correspondent says this visit will be Princess Anne's first since 2010 and that he hopes she'll visit Invercargill, despite countryman John Cleese's disdain for it .

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