Peter Phillips

Peter Mark Andrew Phillips (born 15 November 1977) is a member of the British royal family. He is the elder child and only son of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. He is the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. After graduating from university in 2000, he worked for Jaguar Racing, followed by Williams Racing.

In 2003, while working for Williams Racing in Canada, he met Autumn Kelly. They married in 2008 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and have two children together. For many years Phillips has worked in the sports sponsorship and management fields. He is 15th in line of succession to the British throne.

Peter Phillips was born at 10:46 am on 15 November 1977, in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital, London.^[1][2] He was the first child of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, who had married in 1973.^[2] At the time of his birth, there was a 41-gun salute from the Tower of London.^[2] He was baptised Peter Mark Andrew Phillips on 22 December 1977, by the Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggan in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace.^[3][5]

Phillips was fifth in line to the throne at birth and remained so until the birth of his cousin, Prince William, in 1982. His parents were said to have refused offers from his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, that would have led to his being born in the peerage. Phillips was the first legitimate grandchild of a monarch in more than 500 years to be born without a title or courtesy title.^[2][6] Phillips has a younger sister, Zara Tindall (née Phillips; born 1981), and two younger half-sisters, Felicity Tonkin (born 1985), the daughter of Mark Phillips and his former mistress Heather Tonkin; and Stephanie Phillips (born 1997), the daughter of his father's second marriage to Sandy Pflueger.

Phillips went to Port Regis Prep School in Shaftesbury, Dorset before following his maternal family by attending Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland. Whilst at Gordonstoun, he was chosen to be head boy^[7][8] and also played in the XV.^[9] During his gap year, he went to Sydney, Australia and worked for Sports Entertainment Limited (SEL), a company he would later return to; he also worked for Jackie Stewart's Formula One racing team during that time.^[10]

He went to the University of Exeter and graduated with a degree in sports science.^[9] At university, he played for the Exeter University Rugby league team.

After his graduation in 2000, Phillips worked for Jaguar as corporate hospitality manager and then for Williams racing team, where he was sponsorship accounts manager.^[7][9][11] In 2004, while working for Williams, Phillips was in a van in China with three other employees when the van was hit by a car. Phillips was uninjured.^[12] He left Williams in September 2005, for a job as a manager at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh.^[9] In March 2012, he left RBS to take on a role as managing director at SEL UK.^[13]

Unlike his sister, Phillips has attracted limited publicity about his personal life.^[7] He dated Elizabeth Lorio, a cod liver oil heiress from the United States, for two years; in 2001 they lived together for eight months.^[14] Later, he had a four-month relationship with Tara Swain, a flight attendant.^[15]

In August 2012, it was announced that he would be the Guest of Honour at the 2012 Rugby league Challenge Cup Final between Warrington Wolves and Leeds Rhinos at Wembley on 24 August 2012.^[16]

In the year leading up to June 2016, Phillips was responsible for organising the "Patron's Lunch", in celebration of the Queen's 90th birthday. It included a parade down The Mall and a hamper picnic for 10,000 guests.^[17]

In 2003, Phillips met Autumn Kelly, a Canadian management consultant, at the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.^[7] Their engagement was announced on 28 July 2007.^[9][14][19]

Autumn Kelly, who was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, was received into the Church of England before her marriage. If she had been Roman Catholic at the time of the marriage, Phillips would have lost his place in the line of the succession to the throne because of the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701.^{[20][21][22][23]} Shortly before their wedding, the couple were interviewed and photographed by Hello! magazine, and were reported to have been paid £500,000, resulting in some concern in royal circles.^[24][25][26] They married on 17 May 2008 at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.^[26][27] The service was conducted by David Conner, the Dean of Windsor.^[28] The couple lived in Hong Kong after Phillips changed positions within the Royal Bank of Scotland and became head of their sponsorships activities in the region.

Their first child, and the Queen's first great-grandchild, a daughter named Savannah Anne Kathleen,^[29] was born on 29 December 2010 at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.^[30][31] On Saturday, 23 April, the Queen was present for the baby's baptism, which took place at Holy Cross Church in Avening, Gloucestershire, near Gatcombe Park, the home of his mother. Savannah is 16th in line to the throne.^[32] On 29 March 2012, the couple's second daughter, Isla Elizabeth, was born at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. She is 17th in line to the throne.^[33] Isla was baptized on Saturday, 30 June 2012, at St. Nicholas' Church in Cherington, Gloucestershire.

Coat of arms of Peter Phillips

Notes These arms were granted to Peter William Garside Phillips, the father of Mark Phillips and grandfather of Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, in October 1973. Mark used these arms differenced with a three-point label, and the younger Peter with a five-point label, until Mark inherited the plain arms in 1998.[34][35] Crest On a Wreath of the colours, a spur rowed upward or, winged argent, enclosing a lozenge encharged with a label gules. Escutcheon Per chevron azure and Or, in chief a horse courant argent, and in base a spring of forget-me-not flowers, slipped and leaved proper.[34] Motto Pro rege et patria (For king and country).

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