The princess, who married Prince Michael of Kent in 1978, told Ms Seward: “So many things that you rely on being able to do, like cleaning your teeth, are impossible. I can type with one finger on a mobile, but I can’t use a laptop.”
She added: “I am told that after an accident like this if you do one wrong movement on top of the unhealed bones you are back where you started.”
At the end of last year, the princess was said to have been diagnosed with a heart problem that required surgery. She told Majesty Magazine: “It shocked me. I still have to rest every afternoon.”
The Prince and Princess of Kent were seen driving into Buckingham Palace together for the festive lunch on December 19.
The fall also came after a particularly difficult year for the family, especially with the sudden death of Thomas Kingston in February.
Thomas, who was Princess Michael’s son-in-law, took his own life at the age of 45. The royal, who married into the Royal Family in 2019, died from a “catastrophic head injury” and a gun was found near his body at his parents’ home in the Cotswolds.
The Princess of Kent also opened up her beloved son-in-law in her most-recent interview.
Describing him as a “a lovely man, so kind and so thoughtful”, she added that the family had “never had an inkling that anything was wrong”.