Editing Anne, Princess Royal (section)

==Marriages and children==

===Marriage to Mark Phillips===
{{further|Wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips|Wedding dresses of Princess Anne}}
Anne met [[Mark Phillips]], a lieutenant in the [[1st Queen's Dragoon Guards]], in 1968 at a party for horse lovers.<ref name="Tribune-Separation">{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/01/princess-anne-to-separate-from-husband/|title=Princess Anne To Separate From Husband|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|first=R. C.|last=Longworth|date=1 September 1989|access-date=13 May 2018|archive-date=14 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514065632/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-09-01/news/8901090513_1_princess-royal-princess-anne-royal-marriage|url-status=live}}</ref> Their engagement was announced on 29 May 1973.<ref>{{cite news | title = Princess Anne's wedding | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/princess_annes_wedding | work = BBC News | access-date = 13 May 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170605145803/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/princess_annes_wedding | archive-date = 5 June 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Hello-Wedding">{{cite web|url=https://us.hellomagazine.com/brides/201107275839/iconic-weddings-princess-anne-mark-phillips/|title=Iconic weddings: Princess Anne and Mark Phillips|publisher=Hello!|date=27 July 2011|access-date=14 May 2018|archive-date=15 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515112747/https://us.hellomagazine.com/brides/201107275839/iconic-weddings-princess-anne-mark-phillips/|url-status=live}}</ref> On 14 November 1973, the couple married at [[Westminster Abbey]] in a televised ceremony, with an estimated audience of 100&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1973/Princess-Anne%27s-Marriage/12305770297723-9/ |title=Princess Anne's Marriage – Events of 1973 |website=UPI.com |date=1973 |access-date=31 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212185745/http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1973/Princess-Anne's-Marriage/12305770297723-9/ |archive-date=12 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They subsequently took up residence at [[Gatcombe Park]]. As was customary for untitled men marrying into the royal family, Phillips was offered an [[earldom]], which he declined;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539937.stm|title=1977: Princess Anne gives birth to Master Phillips|work=BBC News|access-date=20 November 2005|archive-date=16 April 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060416103647/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539937.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> consequently their children were born without [[Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom|title]]s.{{refn|As female-line descendants of royalty, the children have no title despite being the grandchildren of a monarch. (They are not the only children of a British princess without titles; the children of [[Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy|Princess Alexandra]], the Queen's cousin, are also untitled.)}} Anne and her husband had two children: [[Peter Phillips|Peter]] (born 1977) and [[Zara Phillips]] (born 1981).<ref name="royal uk">{{cite web|title=The Princess Royal|url=https://www.royal.uk/the-princess-royal?ch=4#bio-section-3|website=royal.uk|date = 2 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714062225/https://www.royal.uk/the-princess-royal?ch=4|archive-date=14 July 2017}}</ref> Anne and Phillips have five grandchildren. On 31 August 1989, Anne and Phillips announced their intention to separate; the couple had been rarely seen in public together and both were romantically linked with other people.<ref name="Tribune-Separation"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-31-mn-2119-story.html|title=But No Divorce Is Planned : Princess Anne, Husband Split|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=31 August 1989|access-date=14 May 2018|archive-date=19 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819205233/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-31/news/mn-2119_1_princess-anne|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="People-Romance">{{cite magazine|url=http://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-crisis-rocks-a-royal-marriage-vol-31-no-16/|title=A Crisis Rocks a Royal Marriage|magazine=People|date=24 April 1989|access-date=13 May 2018|first1=Joanne|last1=Kaufman|first2=Jonathan|last2=Cooper|archive-date=7 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307170613/http://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-crisis-rocks-a-royal-marriage-vol-31-no-16/|url-status=live}}</ref> They shared custody of their children, and initially announced that "there were no plans for divorce."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/31/newsid_2510000/2510877.stm|title=1989: Royal couple to separate|date=31 August 1989|publisher=BBC|access-date=14 May 2018|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820014414/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/31/newsid_2510000/2510877.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/01/world/princess-anne-and-husband-agree-to-separate.html|title=Princess Anne and Husband Agree to Separate|newspaper=The New York Times|first=Sheila|last=Rule|date=1 September 1989|access-date=14 May 2018|archive-date=15 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515112232/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/01/world/princess-anne-and-husband-agree-to-separate.html|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}</ref> On 13 April 1992, the Palace announced that Anne had filed for divorce, which was finalised ten days later.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/1992/4/23/18980033/princess-anne-s-divorce-final|title=Princess Anne's Divorce Final|work=[[Deseret News]]|date=23 April 1992|access-date=12 December 2020|archive-date=6 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006033051/https://www.deseret.com/1992/4/23/18980033/princess-anne-s-divorce-final|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Brozan|first=Nadine|title=Chronicle|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 April 1992|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE4DC133EF937A15757C0A964958260|access-date=14 February 2017|archive-date=3 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403044341/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/24/style/chronicle-753392.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Marriage to Sir Timothy Laurence===
[[File:Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence.jpeg|thumb|upright|230px|right|The Princess Royal with her second husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence (2014)]]

Anne met [[Timothy Laurence]], a [[Commander (Royal Navy)|commander]] in the [[Royal Navy]], while he was serving on the [[HMY Britannia|Royal Yacht ''Britannia'']]. Their relationship developed in early 1989, three years after Laurence was appointed as an [[equerry]] to the Queen.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/world/in-quiet-scottish-ceremony-anne-marries-naval-officer.html|title=In Quiet Scottish Ceremony, Anne Marries Naval Officer|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 December 1992|access-date=13 May 2018|archive-date=14 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514065229/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/world/in-quiet-scottish-ceremony-anne-marries-naval-officer.html|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}</ref> In 1989, the existence of private letters from Laurence to Anne was revealed by ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' newspaper.<ref name="People-Romance"/> The couple married at [[Crathie Kirk]] near [[Balmoral Castle]] in Scotland, on 12 December 1992.<ref name="Wedding2">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_2547000/2547723.stm|title=1992: Princess Royal remarries|work=BBC|access-date=17 May 2018|archive-date=16 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516200054/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_2547000/2547723.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Approximately 30 guests were invited for the private marriage service.<ref name="LA-Wedding">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-13-mn-4165-story.html|title=Britain's Princess Anne Remarries : Wedding: Scottish ceremony brings a tiny bit of joy to a year that saw more than one royal marriage fail.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|first=William|last=Tuohy|date=13 December 1992|access-date=13 May 2018|archive-date=19 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819205922/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-12-13/news/mn-4165_1_princess-anne|url-status=live}}</ref> Unlike the [[Church of England]] at the time, the [[Church of Scotland]] did not consider marriage to be a binding [[sacrament]] and so permitted the remarriage of divorced persons under certain circumstances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/2449/guide_marriage.pdf |website=Church of Scotland|title=Worship on the Web|access-date=1 April 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404195306/http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/2449/guide_marriage.pdf |archive-date=4 April 2016 }}</ref><ref>In 2002, the [[Church of England]] agreed that divorced persons could remarry in church under certain circumstances, but the matter is left to the discretion of the parish priest.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/our-views/marriage,-family-and-sexuality-issues/divorce.aspx|title=Divorce|website=The Church of England|access-date=14 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110205105525/https://www.churchofengland.org/our-views/marriage,-family-and-sexuality-issues/divorce.aspx|archive-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> Anne became the first royal divorcée to remarry since [[Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]].

For the wedding ceremony, Anne wore a white jacket over a "demure, cropped-to-the-knee dress" and a spray of white flowers in her hair.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/royal-wedding-dresses-through-the-years/princess-anne-marries-timothy-laurence/|title=Royal wedding dresses through the years|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=7 August 2015|access-date=13 May 2018|archive-date=14 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514141348/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/royal-wedding-dresses-through-the-years/princess-anne-marries-timothy-laurence/|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Her engagement ring was made of "a [[cabochon]] [[sapphire]] flanked by three small diamonds on each side".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/celebrity/british-royal-engagement-rings-15117|title=A Very Thorough History Of British Royal Engagement Rings|work=Harper's Bazaar Australia|first=Mahalia|last=Chang|date=27 November 2017|access-date=15 May 2018|archive-date=16 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516103732/https://www.harpersbazaar.com.au/celebrity/british-royal-engagement-rings-15117|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the marriage service, the couple and guests headed to [[Craigowan Lodge]] for a private reception.<ref name="Wedding2"/> Laurence received no [[Peerages in the United Kingdom|peerage]], although was knighted in 2011.<ref>{{London Gazette
| issue = 59841
| date = 5 July 2011
}}</ref>