Mark Phillips

About

Mark Anthony Peter Phillips (born 22 September 1948) is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman who competed for Great Britain. He was the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. Phillips is a leading figure in British equestrian circles, a noted eventing course designer and a columnist for Horse & Hound magazine.

Mark Anthony Peter Phillips was born on 22 September 1948. He is the son of Major Peter William Garside Phillips, MC (1920–1998) and Anne Patricia Phillips (née Tiarks; 1925–1988). Mark had a younger sister, Sarah Anne Staples (née Phillips; 1951–2014).
His father was the younger son of Joseph Herbert Phillips and Dorothea Mary Land, and the grandson of William Garside Phillips. His paternal uncle, Joseph Anthony Moore Phillips, married Lady Katharine Fitzalan-Howard, a daughter of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk. His patrilineal great-great-grandfather was the portrait painter William Moore and his great-granduncles included the artists Albert Joseph Moore, Henry Moore and John Collingham Moore. His mother was educated at Downe House and served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service during…