The Princess Royal in the uniform of the Master of Trinity House, June 2012 |
21st Birthday Portrait, 1971 |
Princess Anne is one of the busiest members of the Royal Family, being the patron of over 200 organisations, and she carries out about 500 royal engagements and public appearances per year. She is particularly active in Scotland. She is known for her no-nonsense approach and disdain for anything touching on celebrity. The former is perhaps best exemplified by her response to gunman who had just shot her driver and bodyguard and told to get out of her car during a kidnap attempt - 'Not bloody likely!'
In June 1987, Princess Anne was given the style 'Princess Royal', the seventh holder of the title reserved for the eldest daughter of the monarch.
Honorary Military Appointments
In the uniform of Colonel of the Blues and Royals |
Colonel-in-Chief of the King's Royal Hussars
Colonel-in-Chief of the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment
Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Corps of Signals
Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Logistic Corps
Colonel-in-Chief the Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Colonel of the Blues and Royals
Royal Colonel of the Royal Scots Borderers, 1st Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Royal Colonel of the 52nd Lowland Regiment, 6th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland
Royal Honorary Colonel of the University of London OTC
Commandant-in-Chief of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (Princess Royal's Volunteer Corps)
Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Lyneham
Honorary Air Commodore of the University of London Air Squadron
Admiral and Chief Commandant for Women in the Royal Navy
Commodore-in-Chief of HM Naval Base Portsmouth
Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals
- Canada
Colonel-in-Chief of the 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)
Colonel-in-Chief of the Communications and Electronics Branch
Colonel-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces Medical Service
Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Regina Rifles
Colonel-in-Chief of Royal Newfoundland Regiment
New Zealand
Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Signals
Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal New Zealand Army Nursing Corps
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Hood, 2016 |
Orders, Decorations and Medals
Orders
Order of the Garter
Royal Knight, 23 Apr 1994
Order of the Thistle
Extra Knight, 2000
Royal Victorian Order
Dame Grand Cross (GCVO), 15 Aug 1974
Grand Master of the Order from 2007
Dame of Justice (DStJ), 1971
Dame Grand Cross (GCStJ), 1998
Queen's Service Order
Extra companion (QSO), 1990
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal, 1953
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal 1977
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal 2002
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012
Commemorative Medal for the Centennial of Saskatchewan 2005
Long Service Awards
Canadian Forces Decoration (CD), with two clasps, 1982
Service Medal of the Order of St John, with (?two) gilt bars.
Foreign Awards
- Austria. Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic - Grand Decoration in Gold with Sash, 1969
- Finland. Order of the White Rose of Finland - Commander Grand Cross, 1969
- Japan. Order of the Precious Crown - Grand Cordon, 1971
- The Netherlands Order of the House of Orange - Grand Cross, 1972
- Luxembourg. Order of the Oak Crown - Grand Cross, 1972
- Republic of Yugoslavia. Order of the Yugoslav Flag - First Class (With Sash), 1972. Defunct, 1991
- Papua New Guinea. Order of Logohu - Grand Companion (GCL), 2005. Anne was the first recipient of the award.
Husbands
Captain Mark Phillips
Mark Phillips was born on 22 September 1948, the son of Major Peter William Garside Phillips and Anne Patricia Phillips (née Tiarks). After Marlborough, he passed out from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1969 and was commissioned into the Queen's Dragoon Guards. He was promoted Captain in 1975 and resigned from the army in 1978.
He met Princess Anne at the Munich Olympics, where he was a member of the three-day event team (winning a Gold Medal). They married on 13 November 1973 at Westminster Abbey. He turned down the offer of a peerage (an earldom was probably on offer). The couple had two children, separated in 1989 and divorced in April 1992.
Prince Charles and Prince Andrew are reputed to have given Philips the nickname 'Foggy' - because he was wet and thick.
Orders, Decorations and Medals
Orders
Royal Victorian Order
Commander (CVO), 1974
Commemorative Medals
Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal 1977
Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence
After being appointed CB, but while still a MVO |
He entered the Royal Navy in 1973, attending the University of Durham on a naval scholarship. He had several sea-going appointment (including a spell as navigating officer of HMY Britannia) before being appointed equerry to the Queen in 1986 and command of the frigate Boxer in 1989. He has held several staff appointment in the MoD, including Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (2004-2007) and Chief Executive of Defence Estates (207-2010). He retired from the Navy in 2010 in the rank of Vice-Admiral.
He and Princess Anne were married at Crathie Kirk, near Balmoral, on 12 December 1992.
As a board member of the CWGC he has taken a prominent role in ceremonies commemorating the centenary of the First World War.
Orders, Decorations and Medals
Orders
Royal Victorian Order
Member (MVO), 1989
Knight Commander (KCVO), 2011
Order of the Bath
Companion, military division, (CB), June 2007
Campaign Medals
General Service Medal (1962-2007), 1 clasp (Northern Ireland) with Mention in Dispatches for his actions in command of HMS Cygnet on anti gun-running patrol, 1982
Commemorative Medals
Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012
Foreign Awards
Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia (CSM), 2005
Laurence was the first recipient of the award - on the occasion that Princess Anne became the first recipient of the Order of the Logohu.
Sir Timothy Laurence was presented with his CB at the same investiture as Zara Phillips was given her MBE |
Children
Anne had two children by Mark Phillips: Peter (b. 1977) and Zara (b. 1981). As female-line grandchildren of the Sovereign, they children
were never eligible for the style 'Royal Highness' or the title 'Prince/Princess' under the terms of George V's letters patent of 1917. They have been granted no other title.
However, Zara Phillips 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. She was a member of the medal-winning team at the London Olympics.
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