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By the time of his wedding to Princess Anne in November 1973, Phillips was an acting Captain. [7] In January 1974, he was appointed a Personal aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II. [8] Phillips was substantively promoted to captain in July 1975, [9] and retired from the Army on 30 March 1978. [10]
Anne married Captain Mark Phillips in 1973; they separated in 1989 and divorced in 1992. They have two children, Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, and five grandchildren. Within months of her divorce in 1992, Anne married Commander (later Vice Admiral) Sir Timothy Laurence, whom she had met while he served as her mother's equerry between 1986 ...
Princess Anne was the first of the Queen's children to marry and the first to divorce.
Laurence met Princess Anne when he served as an equerry to Queen Elizabeth II in 1986, at a time when it was much rumoured that her first marriage to Captain Mark Phillips was breaking down. In 1989, the existence of private letters from Laurence to the Princess was revealed by The Sun newspaper, though it did not name the sender. Buckingham ...
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Princess Anne's ex-husband, Captain Mark Phillips is the father to her two children, Peter and Zara Phillips. Here's what he's been up to now.
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 horseman and equestrian.
Princess Anne was born to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in 1950, and she's kept royal watchers enamored for more than 70 years. Anne married British army Captain Mark Phillips in 1973. The ...