Mark Anthony Peter Phillips.

He was born on 22 september 1948.

He's a olympic gold medal winning horseman and ex-husband of Anne, Princess Royal.

Mark Phillips was educated at Stotus Hill Preparatory School and Malborough College, whence he joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Upon passing out from Sandhurst, Phillips was comissioned as a second lieutenant into the Quee,'s Dragon Guards in July 1969. After the expected period, he was promoted to lieutenant in January 1971. By the start of  1974, Phillips was an acting captain when he was appointed a Personal Aide -de- Camp to Queen Elizabeth II.

Phillips was sustantively promoted to captain in Jult 1975. Phillips retired frfom the Army on 30 March 1978.

In 1972 Phillips was a member of the British three day event team, wich won th gold medal at the Munich Olympics. He won the Badminton Horse Trials in 1971 and 1972 riding Great Ovation, in 1974 on Columbus, and in 1981 on Lincoln.

In 1998, Phillips designed the cross-country venue for the Red Hills Horse Trials, a qualifying event for the Olympics located in Tallassee, Florida, USA.

It was trough his equestrian activities thet he meet Princess Anne.

Phillips married Princess Anne on 14 November 1973, at at Westminister Abbey, and had two children:

*Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, born in 1977.

*Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, born 1981.

There were rumours about a stormy relationship between them.

In 1992, Phillips and the Pri ncess Royal were divorced.

In 1985 Phillips fathered a daughter, Felicity, as a rsult of an extramarrital affair with New Zeland art teacher Heather Tonkin. Phillip was confirmed as the father as a result of DNA testing during a paternity suit in 1991.

On February 1997, Phillips married Sandy Pfluerger, an American dressage rider.

Peter Phillips is Mark Phillips's son.

Zara Phillips is Mark Phillips's daughter.

Mark Phillips is  Princess Anne's ex-husband.