Mark phillips net worth
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Captain Mark Phillips turns 75 today. Who is he, and what was his part in the scandal that brought sadness to the heart of the royal family?
When Princess Anne married Captain Mark Philips at Westminster Abbey - on colour TV! - they set the template for many royal marriages to come, and the public lapped it up.
Anne, then 23, was at the height of her glamour while 25-year-old Mark Phillips, was every inch the dashing officer from the Queen's Dragoon Guards and came from a long line of military figures.
Phillips turns 75 today.
He was also - and is, still - a highly accomplished equestrian, which is how he met the Princess Royal, a fellow horse enthusiast.
Mark Phillips won gold with the British three day eventing team at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Captain Mark Phillips, pictured in 1991, is the first husband of Princess Anne and a former Olympic equestrian. He turns 75 today
The couple met through the equestrian circuit and announced their engagement in May 1973
Heather Tonkin, pictured with Felicity, said she wanted to get Mark Phillips to accept he had
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Mark Phillips
English equestrian and former husband of Princess Anne
This article is about the former husband of the Princess Royal. For other people with the same name, see Mark Phillips (disambiguation).
Mark Anthony Peter Phillips (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.
Family background and early life
Mark Anthony Peter Phillips was born on 22 September 1948. He is the son of Major Peter William Garside Phillips, MC (1920–1998)[1] and Anne Patricia Phillips (née Tiarks;[2] 1925–1988);[1] they married in 1946. Anne was educated at Downe House and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during the Second World War.[2] She was the only daughter of John Gerhard Edward Tiarks (1896–1962), who served in the First and Second World Wars, attained the rank
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Mark Phillips
Full Name: Mark Phillips
Father: Major Peter Phillips
Mother: Anne Tiarks Phillips
Born: September 22, 1948 at Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Current Age: 76 years, 4 months, and 25 days
Married (1): Princess Anne on November 14, 1973 at Westminster Abbey
Children: Peter Phillips, Zara Phillips
Divorced: April 28, 1992
Married (2): Sandy Pflueger on February 1, 1997
Children: Stephanie Phillips
Mark Phillips was the first husband of Princess Anne. He was born 22 September 1948 and educated at Marlborough College. He attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and was commissioned in 1969 into the Queen�s Dragoon Guards initially as Lieutenant and later Captain. Although he has now left the Army he continues to style himself Captain Mark Phillips.
His keen interest is horse riding and equitation events. He won the Badminton Horse Trails in 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1981. In 1972, he was a member of the British three-day event team, which won the gold medal at the Munich Olympics, and silver in the Seoul Olympics.
It was through these events
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