Which Royals Have Gotten Divorced?
7 Royal Divorces That Prove It's Not All a Fairy Tale
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Out of the queen's children, Princess Anne was the first to get married: she wed Mark Phillips in 1973. Mark, a military officer and Olympic equestrian, was a "commoner," and the pair are rumoured to have refused the queen's offer of an earldom upon the marriage. The couple had two children, Peter and Zara, and similarly declined to give them royal titles so they could lead more normal lives.
Through the 1980s, the couple's marriage began to deteriorate, but their separation was quiet, unlike the highly public implosion of her brothers' marriages. In 1989, they announced their separation but with no immediate plans to divorce, as royal divorce was still a touchy subject. By 1992, however, they did divorce. Anne remarried later that year to Timothy Laurence, to whom she is still married today, and Mark wed American equestrian Sandy Pflueger in 1997 (and divorced in 2012).