Mark Phillips finds new love, plans to divorce
The onetime married adult man of the Princess Royal, Captain Mark Phillips, is to divorce for a minute time, to hold out with American showjumper Lauren Hough, who is 28 years his junior.
Phillips, 63, is the begetter of British equestrian Zara Phillips, who is vying for a topographic point inward the British Olympic team.
He is currently chef d’equipe of the US eventing squad equally it prepares for the London Olympics.
It is understood Phillips volition non hold out returning to the identify unit of measurement habitation he shared with his 58-year-old wife, Sandy, together with 14-year-old daughter, Stephanie, inward Cherington, Gloucestershire.
He had already been spending several months a twelvemonth inward the United States of America of America equally business office of his operate commitments.
Hough, 35, lives inward Florida, together with the novel couplet are reportedly intending to laid upwardly habitation inward Wellington, a wintertime equestrian hub inward the United States. They are reported to hold out looking to purchase a habitation together.
Phillips’ constabulary firm, CKFT, released a tilt saying: “Captain together with Mrs Mark Phillips are separating together with divorce proceedings convey commenced. The couplet convey a daughter, aged 14, together with the aid together with back upwardly of her is Captain Phillips’ principal draw of piece of job organisation at this sensitive time.
“Captain Phillips thence requests that all parties abide by their privacy inward the months ahead.”
Phillips is an Olympic gilt medallist inward three-day eventing. He won the gilt inward Munich equally a 23-year-old, together with also has 4 Badminton wins to his credit, inward 1971, 1972, 1974, together with 1981.
Since giving upwardly competitive riding inward the belatedly 1980s he has earned a living equally an equestrian consultant across several spheres, from advising wealthy person clients to designing courses. He writes books together with columns, owns a 1000-acre farm, together with oversees the annual Gatcombe Horse Trials, equally good equally beingness the US eventing team’s chef d’equipe.
California-born Hough is the immature adult woman of roughly other Olympian, Charles “Champ” Hough, who claimed an Olympic bronze medal inward squad eventing at Helsinki inward 1952. Her mother, Linda, operated a hunter together with jumper stable for 25 years.
Hough was business office of the US Olympic squad at Sydney inward 2000, together with volition aid omnibus the electrical flow US squad with Phillips for the London Games equally an assistant. She was named inward the US Olympic showjumping longlist with 2 horses inward March.
Phillips divorced Princess Anne inward 1992 afterwards a 19-year marriage. She too, was an Olympic equestrian, having riden for United Kingdom inward Montreal inward 1976 – iii years afterwards they married.
Phillips married Hawaiian-born Sandy Pflueger inward 1997. She was a fellow member of the US dressage squad at the Los Angeles Olympics inward 1984.
Pflueger was a fellow member of the US dressage squad at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics together with went on to aid omnibus the US squad amongst her husband.
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