ZARA (PHILLIPS) TINDALL

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Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall MBE (née Phillips; born 15 May 1981), known commonly as Zara Phillips, is the second child and only daughter of Anne, Princess Royal and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips and is 14th in the line of succession to the throne. She is married to former England rugby union player Mike Tindall, but has kept her own name for professional purposes, referring to herself otherwise as "Mrs Tindall". She is listed as 14th in the line of succession to the 16 Commonwealth realms as Mrs Michael Tindall.

MAY 2012 - Mike Tindall was reported in press as saying that he and stunning wife Zara Phillips want to add a new team member to their family. Tindall, 33, said he and Princess Anne’s daughter want to follow in the footsteps of her brother Peter and give the Queen a great-grandchild. But it’s about timing.

Zara Phillips riding Glenbuck at Badminton Horse Trials 2010

Marriage

On 21 December 2010, Buckingham Palace announced her engagement to rugby union player Mike Tindall, who plays for Premiership side Gloucester and the England national team. She received a diamond and platinum engagement ring from Tindall.[8] She lives with Tindall at their home in Gloucestershire. The couple met during England's Rugby World Cup-winning campaign in Australia in 2003, being introduced by Zara's cousin, Prince Harry. The wedding was held on 30 July 2011 at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. The bride wore a Stewart Parvin dress and the Meander tiara. This tiara belonged to her great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who became Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark. It was a tiara that Anne, Princess Royal also wore.

Equestrian - Medal record

Following in both her parents' footsteps, Phillips is an accomplished equestrian. In June 2003, she announced that she had secured a sponsorship deal with Cantor Index, a leading company in spread betting, to help cover the costs of her equestrian career.

Riding her horse Toytown, she collected individual and team gold medals at the 2005 European Eventing Championship in Blenheim and individual gold and team silver medals at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany, making her the reigning Eventing World Champion until 2010. She won the Eventing World Championship in Aachen in 2006. The same year she was voted 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British viewing public (an award her mother won in 1971). She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year's Honours List by her grandmother for her services to equestrianism, clearly deserved for consistent skill and performance. In 2012 she carried an Olympic flame at Cheltenham Racecourse on her horse Toytown.

Despite winning team gold at the 2007 European Eventing Championships in Italy, she failed successfully to defend her own individual title after a problem in the show jumping phase of the competition.

It was announced by the British Olympic Association that Phillips would be riding Toytown for the British equestrian team at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 in Hong Kong. However, an injury sustained by Toytown during training led to her being forced to withdraw from the team. Zara previously missed the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when Toytown suffered a similar injury during training.

On 25 October 2008, she fell from her horse, Tsunami II, at the 15th fence of a cross-country event at Pau, France, and broke her right collarbone. The horse broke its neck after it had tipped over the hedge and was put down.

On 11 June 2012, Phillips was announced as being a part of the British Equestrian team at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Zara Tindall

Royal engagements

Phillips supports many charitable causes. In 2003, she and Princess Anne took part in the first UK double ship-naming ceremony in Southampton. Princess Anne named the P&O Cruises liner Oceana, and Phillips named its sister ship Adonia.

She frequently attends various events for charity and has taken to supporting certain causes herself, mainly for spinal injuries, equestrian charities and children's causes. In 2005, she auctioned one of her evening gowns (worn at the London premiere of the film Seabiscuit) to raise money for tsunami relief. She also undertook a visit to New Zealand in her role as patron of The Catwalk Trust. From 1998 to 2005 she served as the president of Club 16-24, a group which encourages young people to take an interest in racing. She is linked to INSPIRE, the Salisbury based medical research charity which helps to improve the quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries, and Sargent Cancer Care for Children, the UK's leading children's cancer charity.

She appears at events for The Caudwell Charitable Trust, which is targeted at children with special needs, disabilities and serious illnesses. She has continued her family's long patronage of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and has visited on many occasions. In 2006, she took part in a special charity day for Cantor Index, whose staff were killed in the 11 September 2001 attacks. In 2007, she became patron of the Mark Davies Injured Riders Fund. To help with Sport Relief 2008, she posed for her first official royal portrait by artist Jack Vettriano. In 2009, she attended a celebrity poker tournament in Monaco in aid of Darfur, Sudan. In September 2010, she attended the 2012 London Olympic Ball alongside cousin Prince Harry of Wales. In October of the same year she attended another celebrity poker tournament, this time in London, in aid of Cancer Research UK, of which she is Royal Patron.

Clothing design

In 2009 it was announced that Phillips would be designing her own range of equestrian clothing for Musto Outdoor Clothing. The range is named ZP176 after the team number Zara was given when she first represented her country. The range was officially launched in July 2010.

World Equestrian Games - Germany

Zara Phillips proved herself equal to the pressure at the World Equestrian Games in Germany to win the individual gold medal.  Phillips stayed cool to retain her lead on Toytown in an action-packed final showjumping round in Aachen, adding the World title gold medal to her double European gold last year and leading the British team to world silver behind Germany.

Zara Phillips

Phillips' great triumph was to negotiate the showjumping course with only one mistake, as this phase is not one at which Toytown excels. Germany's Bettina Hoy had been Phillips' main challenger in the previous phase but made two mistakes and had one time penalty on Ringwood Cockatoo in the showjumping.

Hoy's errors dropped her to sixth and British-based Australian Clayton Fredericks moved up to the silver medal place on Ben Along Time, giving Phillips a one-fence margin for error.  Toytown caught a rail inside the penultimate fence, the treble, but that was the only mistake and, together with one time penalty, Phillips finished on five and won the gold medal.  Phillips said: "I have done a lot of work on Toytown's showjumping, with enormous help from the team showjumping trainer Ken Clawson, so he deserves a lot of thanks for the improvement."

Phillips, who is now being tipped as a contender for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, told BBC Radio Five Live: "It's unbelievable, a fantastic result. "It's great we got a medal for the team as well. "The thing that put pressure on me was that I didn't hear the bell so I didn't get to the start on time. I looked up at the end and just rushed it but luckily I had a fence and a bit in hand. "It's great for the sport, everyone can see it and how wonderful it is, and how the animals are the most amazing animals in the world. "It's an amazing venue in there, in England we don't get to jump anywhere like that."

Phillips had claimed to be looking forward to the final showjumping phase but when she took gold she had to hold back the tears. She had coped with the pressure of helping the team win silver as well and also recently lost close friend Sherelle Duke after the Irish rider was killed in an eventing fall a week ago. Phillips had taken the individual competition lead during the cross country phase with an inspired performance over a course that caused a lot of problems for the 14-nation, 79-strong field.

Phillips and Toytown survived one sticky moment and drove on to go ahead with a crucial clear round to set up a thrilling final day in the showjumping. In the showjumping, Britain made up a little ground on Germany, but not enough to upset their lead, finishing 26 penalties behind. Australia overtook America for the bronze, but America's ex-firefighter Amy Tryon moved up to take individual bronze on British-bred Poggio.

Zara Phillips - World Equestrian Games, gold

Equestrianism: Phillips leads British chase - 26 August 2006

Zara Phillips - European eventing success

ZARA PHILLIPS WINS HORSE-RIDING GOLD - 12/09/2005

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