At the time, Charles was 23 and Camilla was 25.
(1961–1997) PRINCESS ANNE'S first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, made a surprising revelation after his second divorce in 2012, according to a resurfaced interview. One of the most adored members of the British royal family, she died in a 1997 car crash. “No girl could have been lonelier,” wrote the New York Times in Princess Mary’s 1922 engagement announcement. There's no way they could've met earlier, according to Smith; Charles had been away for nearly all of 1971, besides a family trip in Scotland and a trip to Paris in early October, when he visited his great-uncle, the Duke of Windsor.The timeline is a bit fuzzy on this one.
The same year the Queen’s only daughter divorced from her first husband and father of … She also notes rumors that they continued to have a relationship even after both parties were married.
Princess Anne is married to Timothy Laurence, whom she wed in 1992.
Their relationship developed in early 1989, three years after he was appointed as an equerry to the Queen. "If anything, the royal family in those days avoided talking about personal matters like that. As far as Smith knows, there is no evidence that Anne and Andrew were dating in the same year as Charles and Camilla. “They announced their engagement early in 1973 and were married later that year. He was 23, and she was 25. The marriage of Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon, to Queen Elizabeth II’s younger sister, Princess Margaret, seemed at first like a fairy tale: together he and Margaret made the country’s most exciting, glamorous couple. ""It is highly unlikely that Anne would have shared with her mother that she had a fling with Andrew Parker Bowles,” Smith says. Smith says things likely just fizzled out with Andrew, though he remains in Anne’s life to this day. Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor.
Anne and Andrew have remained friends to this day, and he is a godfather of Anne … "Charles and Camilla's first meeting was over drinks at Lucia Santa Cruz's flat in London, where she and Camilla were neighbors," Smith says.
Anne and Andrew got together in 1970, but Charles and Camilla didn't meet until the early summer of 1972. But the romance never got that far. Andrew came from a racing family; his father Derek was a racing enthusiast, much like most of the royal family. Their mutual friend, Lucia St. Cruz, introduced the two.
As Camilla and Andrew's lifelong friend, Lord Patrick Beresford, told me, Charles 'sort of parachuted in the middle' of Camilla's relationship with Andrew. The divorce of Phillips and Princess Anne was finalized on April 23, 1992. Phillips declined the courtesy title of ‘earl’. They’ve been married for over 25 years. Princess Anne is the only daughter and second child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, while Mark Phillips is a retired British Army cavalry officer and a skilled horseman and equestrian. The Telegraph reported at the time: “One respected US eventing website described his behaviour as ‘reprehensible’ and said his departure from the US Eventing Team ‘can’t come soon enough’.”Speaking to Country Life magazine eight years ago, he addressed the reports that his second marriage was over and that many were calling for him to resign from the US coaching team for equestrian events.His second wife Sandy was part of the US dressage team performing at the 1984 LA Olympics, and Miss Hough was a member of the US team for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.Mark won a gold medal at the Munich Olympics in 1972, while Anne rode for Great Britain in 1976 at the Montreal Games.The Telegraph claimed Mark also told friends: “I might only be alive for another five or ten years, so I might as well be happy.”Both Miss Hough and Mark were members of the US equestrian team’s coaching staff.Mark went on to wed Sandy Pflueger, a fellow equestrian in 1997 — but in 2012, it was revealed that he had been unfaithful to her too and had moved in with a woman 28 years his junior.Miss Hough is only six months older than Mark’s son Peter Phillips.Mark announced at the same time that he was going to set up home in Florida with his Olympic equestrian love, once he had started divorce proceedings from his wife Sandy.The matter was particularly divisive as he, his second wife Sandy and his new girlfriend Lauren Hough were all in the equestrian industry — as was the Princess Royal.It continued: “Capt Phillips’ affair with Miss Hough is reported to have started five years ago, around three years before Miss Hough started coaching with him.”The couple have a daughter, Stephanie, who was 14 years old at the time.When asked if she was surprised by the fuss around the disclosure of her romance, she said: “Not really, I guess I knew it was coming.”This led some to suggest he had a conflict of interest with his workplace.Yet, Mark later told Country Life: “It’s sad when a sport can’t get behind their coaches going into the Olympics, and if that’s the future, I’m not sad to be leaving.”See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper,order back issues and use the historic Daily Expressnewspaper archive.Fans had called for him to resign as a result of the drama, and he did leave his job following the 2012 Olympics.“I’m not out to win a popularity contest.”According to the publication, Miss Hough later broke her silence over her love life, too.Mark explained: “I don’t read chat rooms and all that rubbish as it is mostly uninformed and unidentified opinion, which won’t change my life.“I have the total support of the team and that’s what matters.She added “it was inevitable” that their relationship would hit the headlines.
Anne met Timothy Laurence while he was serving on the Royal Yacht Britannia.