Zara Phillips

Full name Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips. Born 15 May 1981 in London as second child and only daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips. She is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Currently, she is fifteenth in the line of succession to the British throne. Like her brother Peter, Zara does not possess a royal title and does not hold the title of Her Royal Highness. Her mother, Princess Anne, refused honorary titles for her children.

Zara has an older brother, Peter. Moreover, she has two half-sisters, Felicity Tonkin (year of birth: 1985; mother: Heather Tonkin) and Stephanie Phillips (year of birth: 1997; mother: Sandy Pflueger), both born to her father as a result of his affairs after the divorce from Zara’s mother.

Zara Phillips was educated at Beaudersert Preparatory at Port Regis. Later she attended Gordonstoun School in Scotland like most of the other members of the royal family. After finishing her secondary education she spent three months in Australia and New Zealand. Then she was qualified as an equine physiotherapist at Exeter University.

Together with her horse Toytown, she won individual and team events in the 2005 European Eventing Championship, individual gold in the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen (Germany), and team gold in the 2007 European Eventing Championship. She was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2006, and awarded Member of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to equestrian sports.

She was engaged to Richard Johnson, a National Hunt jockey. The couple split up in November, 2003. She married rugby player, Mike Tindall 30 July 2011. The couple has one daughter, Mia (born in 2014).

Sources

http://www.britroyals.com/family.asp?id=zara

http://www.hellomagzine.com/profiles/zara-phillips/

http://www.royalist.info/execute/biog?person=736

http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/windsor_14.htm

http://britishroyalfamily.com/the-royal-family/zara-phillips/