Born Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips (15 May 1981)
Zara Tindall MBE is a member of the Royal Family and an Equestrian and Olympian. She is the daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips and the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Zara Tindall 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 television 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 Honours for her services to equestrianism. In 2012, she carried an Olympic flame at Cheltenham Racecourse on her horse Toytown. As a member of the Great Britain Eventing Team, she won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, presented to her by her mother.
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At birth, she was sixth in line of succession to the British throne. She is now 21st in line.
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Zara Tindall went to Beaudesert Park School in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and Port Regis School in Shaftesbury, Dorset, before following other members of the Royal Family in attending Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland. Shel excelled at many sporting activities, representing her schools in hockey, athletics and gymnastics. She later studied at University of Exeter and qualified as a physiotherapist.
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She met rugby union player Mike Tindall, who played for Premiership side Gloucester and the England national team during England's Rugby World Cup-winning campaign in Australia in 2003. On 21 December 2010, Buckingham Palace announced the couple's engagement. As required by the Royal Marriages Act 1772, since repealed, the Queen gave her consent to their marriage in a meeting of the Privy Council on 10 May 2011.
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Their wedding was held on 30 July 2011 at the Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. A reception was held at Holyrood Palace following the service.
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The Tindall's have three children, Mia Grace born in 2014 - She is 22nd in the line of succession since 2024 - and after two pregnancies ended in miscarriage, Lena Elizabeth was born in 2018, she is 23rd in the line of succession. Their third child, son Lucas Philip, was born in 2021 and is
24th in the line of succession.
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Like her parents, Zara Tindall is an accomplished equestrian. She finished runner up at Burghley Horse Trials in 2003 in her first four-star event.
Zara and Mike Tindall in 2012
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Zara Phillips/Tindall during the 2012 Olympic Games
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Riding her horse Toytown, shel 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. The same year after her win in Germany, she was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year by the British viewing public (an award her mother won in 1971). She was also appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours for her services to Equestrianism. Despite winning team gold at the 2007 European Eventing Championships in Italy, she failed to defend her individual title after a problem in the show-jumping phase of the competition.
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Due to injuries to Toytown Zara Tindall missed the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
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In 2008, Tindall 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 tipped over the hedge and was put down.
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For 2012, Tindall was announced as a member of the British Equestrian team for the 2012 London Olympic Games. She competed on High Kingdom and won a silver medal in the team event. Her mother, Princess Anne, presented her medal. Tindall finished second at Luhmühlen Horse Trials 2013, again on High Kingdom. At the World Equestrian Games in 2014, Tindall and High Kingdom were part of the British team that won team silver.
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Tindall stopped using her maiden name, Phillips, in 2016. She competed for the first time as Zara Tindall during her unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
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Zara Tindall supports many charitable causes. 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. 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 is Patron and supporter of Lucy Air Ambulance for Children charity which is the UK's first dedicated air transfer service to fly critically ill infants and children from local hospitals to the relevant centre of excellence. She appears at events for The Caudwell Charitable Trust, which is targeted at children with special needs, disabilities and serious illnesses.
Source: wikipedia.com
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