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Zara Phillips
MBE
Born
Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips

(1981-05-15) 15 May 1981 (age 43)
St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London
Alma materUniversity of Exeter
Spouse
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(m. 2011)​
Parent(s)Mark Phillips
Anne, Princess Royal
RelativesPeter Phillips (brother)
Elizabeth II (grandmother)
Prince Philip (grandfather)

Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, MBE (born 15 May 1981) is the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips and is thirteenth in the line of succession to the throne. She is married to England rugby union player Mike Tindall, but has elected to keep her maiden name.[1]

An equestrian, Phillips is the former Eventing World Champion who won the World Championship in Aachen and was voted 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year that year by the British viewing public (an award her mother won in 1971). She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year's Honours List for her services to equestrianism.[2]

Family life

She is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth she was sixth in line to succeed her grandmother the Queen. As of the birth of her niece Savannah Phillips in 2010, she is 13th in the line of succession to the thrones of 16 independent countries.

She has an older brother, Peter Phillips, born 15 November 1977, and two half-sisters: Felicity Tonkin, born in 1985 to her father and his former mistress Heather Tonkin;[3] and Stephanie Phillips, born 2 October 1997 from her father's second marriage to Sandy Pflueger.

At the request of their mother,[4] the children of the Princess Royal do not hold any royal title, nor are they entitled to one by right of birth, as they are the grandchildren of a monarch in the female line.

During her time at school, she excelled at many sporting activities and represented her schools in hockey, athletics and gymnastics.[5] She later qualified as a physiotherapist specialising in Equine Physiotherapy from the University of Exeter.[6]

On 21 December 2010, Buckingham Palace announced her engagement to rugby union player Mike Tindall, who plays for Premiership side Gloucester and the England national team. She lives with Tindall at their home in Gloucestershire. The couple met during England's Rugby World Cup-winning campaign in Australia in 2003.[7] The wedding was held on 30 July 2011 at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland.[8] It has been reported that on account of her professional interests in equestrianism, she will continue to use her maiden name.[1]

Equestrian

Zara Phillips riding Glenbuck at Badminton Horse Trials 2010

Following in both her parents' footsteps, Phillips is an accomplished equestrian.[9] In June 2003, she announced that she had secured a sponsorship deal with Cantor Index, a leading company in spread betting, to help cover the costs of her equestrian career.

Together with her horse Toytown, she collected individual and team gold medals at the 2005 European Eventing Championship in Blenheim and individual gold and team silver medals at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany, making her the reigning Eventing World Champion.

However, despite winning team gold at the 2007 European Eventing Championships in Italy, she failed to defend her own individual title after a problem in the show jumping phase of the competition.[10]

It was announced by the British Olympic Association that Phillips would be riding Toytown as one of five riders for the British equestrian team at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 in Hong Kong.[11] However, an injury sustained by Toytown during training led to her being forced to withdraw from the team. Zara previously missed the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens when Toytown suffered a similar injury during training.[12]

On 25 October 2008, she fell from her horse, Tsunami II, at the 15th fence of a cross-country event at Pau, France, and broke her right collarbone. The horse had broken its neck after it had tipped over the hedge and so had to be put down.[13]

Royal engagements

Royal family of
the United Kingdom and the
other Commonwealth realms
Badge of the House of Windsor

As the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, Phillips supports many charitable causes. In 2003, she and Princess Anne took part in the first UK double ship-naming ceremony in Southampton. Princess Anne named the P&O Cruises liner Oceana, and Phillips named its sister ship Adonia.

She frequently attends various events for charity and has taken to supporting certain causes herself, mainly for spinal injuries, equestrian charities and children's causes. In 2005, she auctioned one of her evening gowns (worn at the London premiere of the film Seabiscuit) to raise money for tsunami relief. She also undertook a visit to New Zealand in her role as patron of The Catwalk Trust. From 1998 to 2005 she served as the president of Club 16-24, a group which encourages young people to take an interest in racing. She is linked to INSPIRE, the Salisbury based medical research charity which helps to improve the quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries, and Sargent Cancer Care for Children, the UK's leading children's cancer charity.

She appears at events for The Caudwell Charitable Trust, which is targeted at children with special needs, disabilities and serious illnesses. She has continued her family's long patronage of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and has visited on many occasions. In 2006, she took part in a special charity day for Cantor Index, whose staff were killed in the 11 September 2001 attacks. In 2007, she became patron of the Mark Davies Injured Riders Fund.[14] To help with Sport Relief 2008, she posed for her first official royal portrait by artist Jack Vettriano.[15] In 2009, she attended a celebrity poker tournament in Monaco in aid of Darfur, Sudan.[16] In September 2010, she attended the 2012 London Olympic Ball alongside cousin Prince Harry of Wales. In October of the same year she attended another celebrity poker tournament, this time in London, in aid of Cancer Research UK, of which she is Royal Patron.

Clothing design

In 2009 it was announced that Phillips would be designing her own range of equestrian clothing for Musto Outdoor Clothing.[17][18] The range is named ZP176 after the team number Zara was given when she first represented her country. The range was officially launched in July 2010.[19]

Arms

Coat of arms of Zara Tindall
Notes
Zara Phillips bears her father's arms on a lozenge[20]
Escutcheon
Per chevron azure and Or, in chief a horse courant argent, and in base a sprig of forget-me-not flowers, slipped and leaved proper.

Ancestry

Family of Zara Tindall
16. William Garside Phillips
8. Joseph Herbert Phillips
17. Emma Grundy
4. Peter William Garside Phillips
18. William Henry Land
9. Dorothea Mary Land
19. Kate Eliza Moore
2. Mark Phillips
20. John Gerhard Tiarks
10. John Gerhard Edward Tiarks
21. Ada Constance Helen Harington
5. Anne Patricia Tiarks
22. Percy Roland Cripps
11. Evelyn Florence Cripps
23. Mary Howard Tripp
1. Zara Phillips
24. George I of Greece
12. Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
25. Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia
6. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark
26. Prince Louis of Battenberg
13. Princess Alice of Battenberg
27. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
3. Anne, Princess Royal
28. George V of the United Kingdom
14. George VI of the United Kingdom
29. Princess Mary of Teck
7. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
30. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
15. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
31. Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck

References

  1. ^ a b BBC News - Zara Phillips wedding: Ceremony at Edinburgh church
  2. ^ "No. 58196". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 30 December 2006.
  3. ^ Mail on Sunday
  4. ^ Forbes http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/23/royals-celebrity-monarchs-biz-billies-cz_ls_0527royals_slide_4.html?thisSpeed=undefined. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Model of the Week: Zara Phillips". AskMen.com. Retrieved 23 January 2008.
  6. ^ "An in-depth look at your favourite celebrity personalities". HELLO!. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
  7. ^ "Zara Phillips to marry rugby star Mike Tindall". BBC News. 21 December 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  8. ^ "Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall set wedding date". BBC News. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
  9. ^ Delbridge, Arthur (1991). The Macquarie Dictionary, 2nd ed.,. North Ryde: Macquarie Library. ISBN 0 949757 63 2.
  10. ^ Austen, Catherine. "Britain retains European eventing championship title". Horse & Hound. Retrieved 19 September 2007.
  11. ^ "Beijing 2008 > Athlete Profile". Olympics.org.uk. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2010.[dead link]
  12. ^ "Phillips out of GB Olympic team". BBC News. 1 June 2008. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  13. ^ "Rider Phillips breaks collarbone". BBC News. 26 October 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
  14. ^ "Zara Phillips supports Mark Davies Injured Riders Fund". Horse & Hound. Retrieved 18 September 2007.
  15. ^ "Thoroughly modern Zara sits for 'exceptionally sexy' royal portrait". Hello!. Retrieved 2 March 2008.
  16. ^ Anne Lu (29 April 2009). "Zara Phillips Wows Charity Poker Guests With Glamorous Outfit".
  17. ^ "Zara Phillips to design own range of Musto clothing". Horseandhound.co.uk. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  18. ^ Moore, Matthew (20 December 2009). "Zara Phillips designs outdoor clothing range". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  19. ^ "ZP176 Range launch video". Musto.com. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  20. ^ Norwich, John (1992). Sovereign: A Celebration of Forty Years of Service. London: Collins & Brown. p. 14. ISBN 9781855851160.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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