Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall MBE OLY is a British equestrian, an Olympian, and the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and Captain Mark Phillips. She is the niece of King Charles III and is 20th in the line of succession to the British throne. Tindall won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006.
Who did Zara Phillips marry?
It has been eleven years since Zara Tindall (née Phillips) married her husband Mike Tindall in Scotland.
Michael James Tindall, MBE is an English former rugby union player. Tindall played outside the center for Bath and Gloucester and won 75 caps for England between 2000 and 2011. He was a member of the English squad which won the 2003 World Cup.
On 21 December 2010, Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Tindall to Zara Phillips, the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips. Phillips is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The couple first met during the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
As was required at the time by the Royal Marriages Act 1772, the Queen gave her consent to their marriage in a meeting of the Privy Council on 10 May 2011. The wedding took place on 30 July 2011 at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh with 400 guests in attendance, including the royal family.