Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950), is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the only sister of King Charles III. Anne is 16th in the line of succession to the British throne and has been Princess Royal since 1987.
What year did Princess Anne first get married?
Anne met Mark Phillips, a lieutenant in the 1st Queen’s Dragoon Guards, in 1968 at a party for horse lovers. Their engagement was announced on 29 May 1973. On 14 November 1973, the couple married at Westminster Abbey in a televised ceremony, with an estimated audience of 100 million.
Is Princess Anne still married to her first husband?
Anne was granted the title of Princess Royal, traditionally given to the monarch’s eldest daughter, in 1987. Two years later, she split from Phillips, and the couple divorced in 1992. Nine months later, Anne married naval commander Timothy Laurence, a former equerry to Queen Elizabeth.