He has been married to Princess Anne of England since 1992. Yet, in 29 years, we have hardly heard of him: the vice admiral Timothy Laurence, 65 years old, five less than his wife. Laurence had been at the center of a scandal in 1989, when some members of the palace staff had stolen some letters she wrote to the princess while she was still married to Mark Phillips and had given them to the press. But after the very reserved wedding – only 30 guests arrived at a church near Balmoral, the only one that also accepts divorcees – the life of the vice admiral of modest origins has hardly changed at all.
Timothy he did not obtain noble titles, he continued to walk to his office at the Ministry of Defense, and on official occasions he is almost never seen.
With Timothy the only daughter of Elizabeth II found stability. But in youth, even if it wasn’t there “Men eater” painted from the third season of the series The Crown, he broke so many hearts. When she was a girl she had many suitors, including aristocrat Brian Alexander and the King Carl Gustav of Sweden. But the princess-rider has always had a soft spot for the “plebeians”. After the riding champion Richard Meade, with whom he had a long relationship, during the Olympic Games in Mexico, in 1972, she met her future (first) husband: the captain of the Queen’s Dragoon Regiment Mark Phillips. The commune passion for horses joined them instantly. On November 14, 1973, Anna and Mark were on the altar of Westminster Abbey to exchange wedding vows in front of 500 million spectators, glued to the TV for the first royal wedding of one of the Queen’s sons.
According to the gossip, the marriage was not happy for long. It was said that Mark continually betrayed his august consort. And it was probably true, seeing that after giving birth Peter (born in 1977) e Zara (1981), Anna found that the husband also had a secret daughter, conceived with a New Zealand girl when he was already married to her. It was 1985. Four years later the couple announced their separation. And Anna, with the official divorce in 1992, became the first of the Windsor brothers to cause scandal by breaking up their marriage.
It seems that in that period the princess tried to fill the void with a very complicated relationship. While his brother Carlo was cheating on Diana with Camilla, she reconnected a brief secret relationship with Andrew Parker Bowles, the husband of Camilla with whom he is said to have had a youthful flirtation before marriage. If it really happened, it didn’t last long. In 1992 Anna was married again. This time it was about Timothy Laurence. At Buckingham Palace, the gossip has always supported, the vice admiral never liked anyone. Not even to the British press, which has long called him “The royal kept”. Anna and her discreet spouse went straight on their way: after living in the tranquility of Gatcombe Park they settled in a apartment in the royal palace of St James. And the holidays are spent sailing the Scottish waters on their Ballochbuie sailing yacht. As far as possible out of the spotlight. How they like it.

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