Jan 2, 2009, 10:00 GMT
Britain's Princess Anne has become patron of a charity which maintains and preserves a famous English lighthouse.
The royal - who has a great love of the buildings and is already patron of the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) - has signed up for a three-year term with the Norfolk-based Friends of Happisburgh Lighthouse.
The body was initially set up following a campaign by locals to save the lighthouse from closure.
Chairman of the organisation Diana Wrightson said: "Royal approval of our efforts to keep the light shining gives real encouragement to a community determined not to lose its heritage."
The Queen Mother officially handed over the care of the building to the trust in 1990.
The lighthouse is still used by sailors to navigate the Norfolk coast.
Earlier this year, it was reported the princess had vowed to visit all of Scotland's 207 lighthouses.
She had already visited around 80 lighthouses as part of her work with the NLB and an additional 20 with her husband, Vice-Admiral Tim Laurence.
Roger Lockwood, NLB chief executive, said at the time: "She takes her role as patron very seriously. It is not just about ticking off another light on the list - she also likes to see the places and conditions in which the technicians have to work.
"The princess has done all the major lights now and it will not be easy to do them all because there are many that are scattered all over the place. But it will be a remarkable feat if the princess ticks them all off. Other than some of our technicians I doubt if anybody else has been to all of them."
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