Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips is an English three day eventer, born in Cirencester on 22 September 1948, who was educated at Marlborough and Sandhurst and served in the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards. He was on the British team that won the 1970 World Championship in Chicago and the 1971 European championship, and won the team gold medal in eventing at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He rode again at the 1988 Games, where he had to withdraw his horse Cartier before the cross-country phase yet still took a team silver as the fourth member of the squad. He won the Badminton Horse Trials four times, in 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1981, and later became a course designer and a columnist for Horse and Hound. He was the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal.