Warring princes William and Harry should take a leaf out of Princess Anne’s book
Jane Moore’s opinion piece.
In the mid-80s, my mission was to locate the rumored “Madonna” in New Zealand. “love child”Captain Mark Phillips, still married to Princess Anne at that time.
I had no names and New Zealand spans 103,000 square miles, so it was like a vast game of Where’s Wally without the aid of a stripy jumper.
I failed the task but, eventually, it emerged that the child, born in 1985 to art teacher Heather Tonkin, was a daughter called Felicity, now 37.
It is not known if Mark and Anne’s children Zara and Peter have ever met her, but after their parents’ subsequent divorce in 1992 (the year of the Queen’s Annus Horribilis), their father went on to marry Olympian horse rider Sandy Pflueger, with whom he had another daughter, Stephanie.
Are you keeping up with the back? Good, I’ll continue. Stephanie, now 24, was brought up in a house on Princess Anne’s Gatcombe Estate, where Mark continued to live after their divorce, so has a close relationship with her half-siblings.
Consequently, when she got married last weekend, her wedding was attended by Princess Anne, daughter Zara and husband Mike Tindall, their daughters, who were bridesmaids along with the two daughters of Peter (who was there with his new girlfriend Lindsay), and his ex-wife Autumn, who was also in attendance with her new boyfriend.
It’s very modern.
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