Anne just signed Anne. The person filling out the wedding registry used Mountbatten Windsor. You can google image the wedding registry. Maybe because it was the first wedding since the name change and Uncle Dickie was still alive to reinforce it.
I couldn't find Anne's marriage certificate. I only found Charles and Camilla's . No surname is given for Charles.
I don't understand what you mean. She has been HRH The Princess Royal since 1987. In any case, even as HRH The Princess Anne, she was already an HRH with the titular dignity of princess when she married so, under the Declaration of 1960, she shouldn't use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor.The LP that allowed Mountbatten-Windsor only excludes descendents with princely title. And Anne is The Princess Anne without a designation.
Tatiana Maria and the British Royal Court site gave a different (somewhat broader) interpretation of the 1960 Declaration implying that even the HRHs with the titular dignity of prince who descend from QEII and Prince Philip must use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor if a surname is officially required. I just don't understand why one was required for Anne in her marriage certificate when it was not for her brothers. Following Skippyboo's argument, I suppose the clerk or whoever filled out (British English: filled in ?) the document simply didn't know what to do and assumed a surname had to be given.
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