{"id":243600,"date":"2023-12-12T08:06:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=243600"},"modified":"2023-12-12T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:06:46","slug":"how-did-princess-anne-sort-out-a-very-practical-route-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/how-did-princess-anne-sort-out-a-very-practical-route-to-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Princess Anne sort out a very practical route to happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> The Church of England was against her second marriage. So how did Princess Anne sort out a very practical route to happiness on this day?<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Princess Anne and Sir Timothy Laurence were married\u00a0on December 12, 1992<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Don&#8217;t miss our brilliant new podcast, The Crown: Fact or Fiction with Robert Hardman and Natasha Livingstone. Listen now on Spotify , Apple or wherever you get your podcasts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Long known as a straightforward, practical kind of woman,\u00a0Princess Anne\u00a0found a very practical solution when things conspired to make her second marriage tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Anne was already divorced from first husband, Captain Mark Philips, when she agreed to marry Timothy Laurence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Church of England did not permit the remarriage of divorcees. So on this day, December 12, 1992, Anne and Timothy Laurence wed in a small ceremony north of the border in the Scottish Presbyterian Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a far cry from the magnificence of Princess Anne&#8217;s 1973 marriage to Mark Philips at Westminster Abbey, which had been the first royal wedding to reach a mass television audience &#8211; and in colour!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/10\/15\/76383223-12614401-image-m-71_1696947598983.jpg\" height=\"1032\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Princess Anne and Sir Timothy Laurence were married on\u00a0on December 12, 1992, in\u00a0Crathie Kirk, near Balmoral in Scotland<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/76383181-12614401-Princess_Anne_and_Tim_Laurence_pictured_with_his_mother_Prince_P-a-2_1701682276877.jpg\" height=\"409\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Princess Anne and Tim Laurence pictured with his mother,\u00a0Prince Philip, Peter Phillips, Zara Phillips and Queen Elizabeth on their wedding day<\/p>\n<p>It was less than a month after her decree absolute that the Princess Royal and Tim Laurence were married\u00a0at Crathie Kirk, Balmoral.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Tim first made it to the heart of royal life in 1986, when he was appointed as the Queen&#8217;s Equerry &#8211; an official assistant to the\u00a0Royal Family.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0How Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence rose from being an unknown aide to the Queen to Princess Anne&#8217;s devoted husband<\/h3>\n<p>The pair slowly fell in love and three years later, Timothy proposed to Anne\u00a0with a cabochon sapphire and diamond ring. It was a simple yet unique design, suited perfectly for the no-nonsense royal.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony involved just\u00a030 guests including her parents the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, her children Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, Prince Charles and Prince Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding also happened to take place just days after Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their legal separation.<\/p>\n<p>For the big day, Princess Anne opted against the traditional bridal gown and instead wore a\u00a0high-neck shift-style dress with a white suit jacket.<\/p>\n<p>She accessorised the look with black shoes and carried a small bunch of heather for her bouquet &#8211; matching the flowers in her hair, styled with her signature beehive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sir Timothy wore his naval uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Scottish bagpipes played as the newlyweds left the church for their\u00a0post-ceremony celebration at Craigowan Lodge on the Balmoral estate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/76383183-12614401-The_low_key_affair_had_just_30_guests_in_attendance_including_he-a-4_1701682277864.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The low-key affair had just 30 guests in attendance, including her parents the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip (pictured)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/76383177-12614401-Pictured_Tim_Laurence_and_Princess_Anne_seen_in_their_car_after_-a-1_1701682276853.jpg\" height=\"348\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Tim Laurence and Princess Anne seen in their car after their wedding ceremony<\/p>\n<p>Having made the leap from royal servant to royal spouse, Sir Tim has now been at the heart of the world&#8217;s most famous family for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>As well as accompanying the Queen at engagements, Sir Tim also escorted other royals, such as Princess Diana and the Duchess of York to venues and events.<\/p>\n<p>His discretion and calm competence quickly won the trust of other royals with the late Queen and Prince Philip said to have been firm admirers.<\/p>\n<p>A connection between the princess and her future husband first became noticed when, in 1988, Anne invited him to become a trustee of her charity &#8211; The Princess Royal&#8217;s Charity Trust.<\/p>\n<p>By then, her relationship Mark Philips was on the rocks and matters seemed to escalate when the existence of a series of letters written by Sir Tim to Anne became public knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>The letters had been stolen from Anne&#8217;s briefcase and delivered to The Sun. Rather than publishing them, the newspaper handed them to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Almost overnight, he went from being an unknown member of the Queen&#8217;s staff to a potential love interest of the married Princess Royal. The navy officer believed that the saga would be the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>It had been less than four decades since King George VI&#8217;s married Equerry, Peter Townsend, had seen his own career come to a virtual halt when it emerged that he and Princess Margaret were in love.<\/p>\n<p>Times had changed, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within days of the letter&#8217;s existence emerging, the Queen showed her support for Sir Tim by having him by her side at public engagements.<\/p>\n<p>It was said, however, that Prince Philip had been less forgiving and had been angry that a servant of the Queen had acted in such a way with his married daughter.<\/p>\n<p>But that did not stop Sir Tim&#8217;s romance with Anne from blossoming, as her marriage to Phillips petered out.<\/p>\n<p>The pair announced their separation at the end of August in 1989 and in April 1992 the Palace announced that Anne had filed for divorce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/12\/07\/76383211-12614401-Pictured_A_bystander_waiting_for_for_the_Princess_Royal_s_weddin-a-1_1702364447738.jpg\" height=\"877\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: A bystander waiting for\u00a0for the Princess Royal&#8217;s wedding at Crathie Church, Scotland<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/76383333-12614401-Pictured_Princess_Anne_and_Sir_Tim_with_their_dog_on_their_first-a-3_1701682277019.jpg\" height=\"804\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Princess Anne and Sir Tim with their dog on their first wedding anniversary in 1993<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/04\/09\/76383175-12614401-Pictured_The_banns_of_marriage_for_the_Princess_Royal_and_Timoth-a-5_1701682277865.jpg\" height=\"428\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: The banns of marriage for the Princess Royal and Timothy Laurence in 1992<\/p>\n<p>Anne and Sir Tim went public with their romance in May 1992, a fortnight after her divorce was finalised. The couple took to the floor together at the Royal Caledonian Ball in London for a series of dances.<\/p>\n<p>Their wedding later that year provided a happy ending to what the Queen had described as her &#8216;annus horribilis&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Anne and Sir Timothy now live together on the Gatcombe Park estate in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p>Anne&#8217;s two children from her first marriage, Peter Philips and\u00a0Zara Tindall, also live on the estate with their respective partners and children.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12614401\/Church-against-marriage-Princess-Anne-happiness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England was against her second marriage. So how did Princess Anne sort out a very practical route to happiness on this day? 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