Meet the secret stepdaughter of Princess Anne who remains a mystery to Zara and Peter

Princess Anne has 2 children, Zara Tindall and Peter Phillips, with her ex-husband Mark Phillips - but fewer radical cognize that she besides has a 'secret stepdaughter' pursuing a arguable emotion affair

Princess Anne has been engaged this week gathering with Gurkha unit and their families during a sojourn to Imjin Barracks successful Gloucestershire. The 73 twelvemonth aged Princess Royal, who is King Charles' younger sister, is simply a well-loved Royal fig and is often hailed arsenic the astir industrious subordinate of The Firm.

She is wedded to ex-Royal Navy serviceman Sir Tim Laurence, whom she joined successful 1992. However, her 2 offspring - Peter Phillips, 46, and Zara Tindall, 43 - are from her archetypal matrimony to Mark Phillips, 75, an Olympic golden medal-winning equestrian.

Anne and Phillips tied the knot successful 1973 aft gathering 5 years prior. They parted ways successful 1989 owed to ongoing narration issues.

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Despite not initially wanting a divorce, things took a melodramatic crook successful 1991 erstwhile it was revealed that Phillips had fathered a kid with a New Zealand creation teacher.

Felicity Tonkin was calved successful 1985 to Heather Tonkin, who had a little brushwood with Phillips successful 1984. Her individuality remained concealed for six years, but erstwhile the information surfaced, it sparked 1 of the biggest Royal scandals ever, reports the Scottish Daily Express.

The brace initially met astatine an Auckland riding session and became friends. The matter occurred erstwhile helium returned a twelvemonth later, with rumours suggesting helium famously near his riding boots extracurricular his edifice country truthful Tonkin could find him.

Reports bespeak that Phillips initially projected an termination and past proceeded to marque monthly payments for the child's upkeep. However, successful 1991, Tonkin went nationalist and DNA tests confirmed Felicity arsenic the girl of Anne's husband.

The latest reports suggest that Felicity has ne'er met her step-siblings Zara and Peter. It is said that they person a bully narration with Stephanie Phillips, their half-sister from their father's 2nd matrimony to Sandy Pflueger.

Despite maintaining a debased profile, Stephanie requested Peter and Zara's children to beryllium angiosperm girls astatine her wedding and adjacent extended an invitation to Anne for the large day.