The accident of the Princess Anne with one of his horses on his estate in the English countryside of Gatombe Park has plunged the British people into new concern, who are witnessing how each Windsor It falls like a deck of cards due to different diseases. If they were first Charles III and Kate Middletonsuffering from cancer, and after Queen Camilladue to exhaustion, now it has been the turn of the most discreet member of the Royal Family.
His Royal Highness is recovering in bristol hospital, specialized in neurological conditions, of various minor injuries and one concussion. Although Buckingham has not confirmed it, in principle, the Princess was hit by a horse with her head or one of her legs while walking on the grounds of her mansion in the county of Gloucestershire.
The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon, when the sister of Charles III She was accompanied by her children, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillipsand her husband, Timothy Laurence whom many consider the most unknown member of the Royal Family. He drives his own car, has no security detail and raises his wife’s degree of discretion to unsuspected limits.
Knowing the Windsors’ history with drama, the Princess Anne she was not going to be left behind with her own and fell in love with Laurence while she was still married to the captain Mark Phillips. At that time, it was already rumored that the couple had romantic ties beyond marriage. The royal with the police Peter Cross –with whom he had a fiery romance that was never confirmed– and the captain with the art teacher Heather Honkin.
In fact, in 1985, Phillips had a daughter from an extramarital relationship. Although it took several more years to officially recognize her, the British people knew her paternity for certain. The media claimed that she even paid him around 80,000 pounds annually to buy your silence.
Timothy Laurence and Princess Anne, in an archive imageGTRES
Finally, the Princess Anne She signed her divorce from Phillips on April 23, 1992 and that same year she married Timothy Laurence who had replaced the aforementioned police officer as lover. Everything exploded when the love letters that both wrote to each other for years and that mysteriously disappeared from the Princess’s room were revealed.
Although it has never been confirmed how they met, the popular belief is that it was during his time as commander of the Royal Navywhile serving in the Royal Yacht Britannia. They were married in a small private service with only 30 guests in Crathie Kirk, nearly Balmoralon December 12, 1992. At the time, the Church of England did not allow divorced people to remarry while their ex-spouses were still alive, so they were forced to choose Scotland.
Laurence served on and commanded numerous ships throughout his career (he was promoted to captain in 1995), including the HMS Cumberland and the HMS Montrose. Throughout the 1990s he also worked for the UK Ministry of Defence, as a military assistant to the Secretary of State for Defense and in Strategic Defense Review.
He was also named squire of the Queen Isabel. Although Laurence did not receive a noble title after his marriage, the Queen Isabel made him a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2011. At first they lived in a discreet apartment in Dolphin Square in London, although, shortly after, they moved to Gatombe Park, property that was Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gift on her first wedding to Phillips.
There they live in the tranquility of the English countryside and surrounded by horses, Ana’s great passion, but not Timothy’s, who finds no pleasure in riding the horse. «She grew up with horses, they have been part of her life, but not mine. “Unfortunately, I have never been bitten by the horse virus,” she explained in one of the few interviews she has given in these 30 years of marriage.
Paradoxically, he also dedicated words to his wife’s ex-husband, Captain Mark Phillips: “It’s quite funny that she married first an army officer and then a navy officer. “There must be something in the army that attracts her,” she confessed.
