Princess Anne's marriages and family life as she celebrates 72nd birthday

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Princess Anne, the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, regularly takes the crown for attending the most public engagements - her calendar having twice as many public appointments as any other royal this summer.

In addition to performing official duties and engagements on behalf of her mother, Anne is a patron of many organisations and has a long association with Save the Children.She has even been nominated for a Nobel Peace Price and was the first member of British Royal Family to compete in the Olympic Games, capping a successful equestrian career.But what about the life of the twice-married Princess Anne, who celebrates her 72nd birthday today, away from the public eye?A shared fondness for horses brought Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, together.The Princess Royal is said to have met the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards lieutenant at a party for horse lovers in 1968.She and Olympic gold medal-winning horseman announced their engagement five years later before getting married at Westminster Abbey on November 14 in 1973.The couple had two children, Peter and Zara Phillips – and now have five grandchildren.But after 16 years of marriage, amid rumours linking them both romantically with other people, they separated.Meanwhile, Anne's relationship with the Royal Navy commander Sir Timothy Laurence, who served on the Royal Yacht Britannia, had blossomed during his time serving as an equerry to the Queen between 1986 and 1989.Private letters from Laurence to the Princess were revealed in 1989 by the Sun newspaper.Anne and Phillips divorced three years later, with Anne keeping her country estate, Gatcombe Park in Gloucestershire, where they had lived.In December 1992, just eight months after her.