Tartan-clad Princess checks out the Tattoo

PRINCESS ANNE has met performers for this year’s Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, including members of a Ukrainian naval band playing at the event for the first time since the war there began.

- By Neil Pooran

dancing ahead of the show’s run, beginning at Edinburgh Castle later this week.

As well as military bands from the UK’s armed forces, this year’s show will feature performers from the USA, Poland and Switzerland.

It will see members of the Centre for Military Music of the Ukrainian Navy make their debut.