Queen’s eldest granddaughter goes from renegade royal to Mike Tindall's housewife

As the Queen’s eldest granddaughter and 13th in line to the throne she could have led a life of pomp and privilege before marrying some wealthy foreign prince or a millionaire magnate.

But when Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips MBE walks down the aisle after tying the knot in Edinburgh today she will be plain Mrs Mike Tindall – housewife, horsewoman and homebody.

And that’s just how this fiercely independent young woman has always wanted it to be. For Zara, 30, is the reluctant princess who ripped up the rule book of her ancestors and snubbed her nose at stuffy protocol.
At 17 she flaunted her tongue piercing at her uncle Charlie’s 50th birthday party.
Two years later she hired a waiter in a leather thong to serve drinks to pals as they giggled over sex toys at an Ann Summers party.
And the whole nation knew when her first serious relationship fell apart because Zara was seen brawling in the street, punching and kicking her man.
Zara’s marriage to a burly, broken-nosed rugby player known as The Fridge couldn’t be more different than that other royal wedding three months ago. But friends have revealed it has brought just as much joy to her adoring gran, proud mum and other relations – who respect and admire her determination to remain the renegade royal.

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Zara Phillips, Granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth,

Zara Phillips wed Mike Tindall Saturday, July 30. She is Queen Elizabeth’s eldest granddaughter and an award-winning equestrian and he is a rugby player. The pair wed at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The dress Phillips wore was an ivory silk faille creation by Stuart Parvin and a Greek key tiara belonging to her mother, The Princess Royal, which had been a gift to Queen Elizabeth from her own mother-in-law and given to Princess Anne in 1972.
The event was a lower-key affair compared with this year’s earlier wedding of Phillips’ cousin William, Prince of Wales to Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Phillips is known for her laid-back style and, despite being granddaughter of the Queen, holds no royal title, at the request of her mother at her birth.
While Phillips and Tindall may have opted for a smaller wedding, theirs was by no means a dull affair. The Daily Mail quoted a royal source as saying, “It was just a family knees-up. Your archetypal wedding, really. Except with a lot of royals and rugby players. And a lot of drinking. In fact make that a hell of a lot of drinking.” The source continued, “Pretty much everyone stayed up all night. I don't even think Zara and Mike went to bed.

 



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Zara Phillips from selling wedding

Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, MBE (born 15 May 1981) is the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. She is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of her birth she was sixth in line to succeed her grandmother the Queen. As of the birth of her niece Savannah Phillips in 2010, she is 13th in the line of succession to the thrones of 16 independent countries.
An equestrian, Phillips is the former Eventing World Champion who won the World Championship in Aachen and was voted 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year that year by the British viewing public (an award her mother won in 1971). She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year's Honours List for her services to equestrianism.
She has an older brother, Peter Phillips, born 15 November 1977, and two half-sisters: Felicity Tonkin, born in 1985 to her father and his former mistress Heather Tonkin; and Stephanie Phillips, born 2 October 1997 from her father's second marriage to Sandy Pflueger.
At the request of their mother, the children of the Princess Royal do not hold any royal title, nor are they entitled to one by right of birth, as they are the grandchildren of a monarch in the female line.
During her time at school, she excelled at many sporting activities and represented her schools in hockey, athletics and gymnastics. She later qualified as a physiotherapist specialising in Equine Physiotherapy from the University of Exeter. She was listed among CEOWORLD magazine's Hottest Royal Women.