Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips,is the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne, the Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. As the eldest granddaughter of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and The Duke of Edinburgh, she is 11th in the British Order of Succession.
An elite equestrienne, Zara is the reigning Eventing World Champion and was voted 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British viewing public (an award her mother, Princess Anne, won in 1971). Zara was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2007 New Years Honours List for her services to equestrianism.
Zara has an older brother, Peter Phillips, born in November 1977, and two half-sisters, Felicity Tonkin, born in 1985 to her father and his former mistress, and Stephanie Phillips, born in 1997 from her father's second marriage to Sandy Pflueger.
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