{"id":139619,"date":"2025-11-14T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139619\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:06:09","slug":"a-royal-wedding-two-children-and-an-extramarital-affair-inside-princess-anne-and-captain-mark-phillips-tumultuous-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139619\/","title":{"rendered":"A royal wedding, two children and an extramarital affair: Inside Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips&#8217; tumultuous relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They married in a small, private service with just 30 guests at Crathie Kirk near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/gallery\/royals-at-balmoral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balmoral<\/a> on 12 December 1992. At the time, the Church of England didn\u2019t allow divorced people to re-marry in its churches while their former spouse was still alive, so the couple were forced to choose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/scotland\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> as their location. Anne became the first royal divorcee to remarry since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/victoria\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria<\/a>, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, married Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia in 1905.<\/p>\n<p>In an ITV show that was aired ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/article\/new-portraits-of-princess-anne-released-to-mark-her-70th-birthday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Anne\u2019s 70th birthday<\/a> in August 2020 called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/article\/princess-anne-at-70-documentary-details\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anne: The Princess Royal at 70<\/a> , Laurence spoke candidly about joining The Firm. He said: &#8216;One of the great surprises for me, when I first went to Balmoral, Sandringham and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/windsor\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Windsor<\/a> was that these places are full of laughter.\u2019 He also said in the documentary, &#8216;The similarities with her (Princess Anne&#8217;s) father are much talked about, but what is less spoken about is the similarities with her mother, the Queen&#8230; the common theme is humour, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/fun\" isautogenerated=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fun<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Princess Anne and Sir Timothy Laurence at Royal Ascot\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/gettyimages-980325660.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Princess Anne and Sir Timothy Laurence at Royal Ascot<\/p>\n<p>Mark Cuthbert \/ UK Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They married in a small, private service with just 30 guests at Crathie Kirk near Balmoral on 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,80502,60,80503,4827],"class_list":{"0":"post-139619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-inside-the-crown-season-4","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-princess-anne","13":"tag-royals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}