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Mark Anthony Peter Phillips CVO ADC OLY (born 22 September 1948) is an English Olympic gold medal -winning horseman for Great Britain and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. He remains a leading figure in British equestrian circles, a noted eventing course designer, and a columnist for Horse & Hound magazine.
Sep 17, 2021 · Max Mumby/indigo/Getty Images. Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips did themselves a solid by getting divorced. And, in a surprising twist (at least for the royal family), Anne went on to marry Timothy Laurence, the man with whom she was having an affair, in 1992 — yes, the same year that she got divorced.
Jul 12, 2022 · Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips got married in November 1973, with the royal selecting a gorgeous long sleeve wedding dress with a high neck and flared cuffs.
Nov 6, 2022 · Mark Phillips is an Army Captain and Olympic equestrian. Born in 1948 in Gloucestershire, Phillips comes from a long line of military personnel. Once he was of age, Phillips attended the Royal ...
Nov 11, 2022 · SEE: 7 royal couples who gave up their titles for love. When Buckingham Palace confirmed their separation, the statement read: "Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal, and Capt. Mark Phillips have ...
The wedding of Princess Anne (later Anne, Princess Royal) and Mark Phillips took place on Wednesday, 14 November 1973 at Westminster Abbey in London. [1] Princess Anne is the only daughter and second child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, while Mark Phillips is a retired British Army cavalry officer and a skilled ...
Jul 11, 2022 · By Rebecca Cope. 11 July 2022. Mark Stewart. This weekend saw a relatively obscure relative of the Royal Family walking down the aisle, as Peter and Zara Phillips's half-sister Stephanie married her beau, William Hosier. Captain Mark Phillips, the ex-husband of Princess Anne, walked his daughter down the aisle at St Mary The Virgin Church in ...
Mark Phillips attended Marlborough College and went on to join the Army, where he later reached the rank of captain. In 1972 he won a gold medal at the Munich Olympics in an equestrian event.
A shared interest in equestrian sport brought Anne together with her first husband, Capt. Mark Phillips, an army officer whom she married on November 14, 1973, in Westminster Abbey. Phillips had been her teammate at the 1971 European championships and was a member of the three-day eventing team that won the gold medal at the 1972 Olympics.
Captain Mark Phillips of the 1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards was educated at Marlborough and the RMC Sandhurst. After being selected as a reserve for the 1968 Olympics, his first major success came in 1970 when he was a member of the British three-day event team that won the World Championship in Chicago. The following year he was on the winning ...
