Captain Mark Phillips
Phillips in 1980
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| Birth name | Mark Anthony Peter Phillips | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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22 September 1948 Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England |
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) |
Anne, Princess Royal (m. 1973; div. 1992) Sandy Pflueger (m. 1997; sep. 2012) |
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| Sport | Horse riding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Captain Mark Anthony Peter Phillips CVO ADC(P) (born 22 September 1948) is an English Olympic gold-medal-winning horseman for Great Britain and former 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 in Horse & Hound magazine.
Mark Phillips is the son of Major Peter William Garside Phillips (1920–1998) and Anne Patricia Phillips (née Tiarks; 1926–1988). Anne was educated at Downe House and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service in World War II. Her father was John Gerhard Edward Tiarks (1896–1962), who served in World War I and II, achieving the rank of Brigadier. John Gerhard was Aide-de-Camp to King George VI from 1947–50. On 1 June 1922, he married Evelyn Florence, the youngest daughter of Percy Roland Cripps, of Winford Manor, Somerset. Actively interested in fox hunting, John was killed in an accident when hunting with the Gloucestershire Berkeley Hunt. His daughter, Anne, had married Major Peter William Garside Phillips in 1946.
Mark Phillips's sister Sarah died in 2014. Phillips was educated at Stouts Hill Preparatory School near Uley, Gloucestershire, and Marlborough College, then the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
Upon passing out from Sandhurst, Phillips was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the Queen's Dragoon Guards in July 1969, After the expected period, he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1971. By the time of his wedding to Princess Anne in November 1973, Phillips was an acting Captain. In January 1974, Phillips was appointed a Personal Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II. Phillips was substantively promoted to Captain in July 1975. Phillips retired from the Army on 30 March 1978.
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