Princess Anne is 75 years old: What does her first husband Mark Phillips look like?

Princess Anne celebrates her 75th birthday. Born August 15, 1950, she was the second child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and the only girl of the couple. Endowed with an independent character, Anne has always done as she seems,
without complying with the requirements of the monarchy.

Princess Anne was the first to marry a commoner

Horse riding from an early age – she was even European champion – so it’s not surprising thatShe falls in love with a rider During a horse competition, in 1970. Mark Philipps does not belong to the nobility, but the princess listens only to her heart and she married her in November 1973. From this union will be born two children, Peter, in 1977, and Zara, in 1981.

If their beginnings are passionate, Princess Anne and Mark Phillips quickly realize that they do not have much in common, apart from horse riding. The couple crumbles and the
Extra-marital relationship From the rider with a young New Zealand woman is revealed when a DNA test confirms that Mark Phillips is indeed the biological father of the latter’s daughter. Separated since 1989, the princess and her hole husband will finally obtain permission to divorce in 1992.

Princess Anne: As soon as divorced, as soon as remarried!

Subsequently, everyone found someone. Mark Phillips married the American Olympic Cavalière Sandy Pflueger in second marriage, with whom he had a daughter, before divorcing in 2012. For her part, Princess Anne loved by the British navy officer Timothy Laurencethat she married right after her divorce with her first husband. The latter was ennobled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2011.