Earlier today, Buckingham Palace has released 75 facts about the Princess Royal
https://www.royal.uk/the-princess-royal-75-facts-75. This page has been removed from the Royal Family.
The removal is probably due to number 14. Thankfully, I did a screenshot.
Number 14 is rather interesting:
Tim was not previously married when he married Princess Anne in December 1992. He was already 37 years old when he married Anne. He joined the Royal Navy in 1972.
He met his future wife in 1986, when he was named as an equerry to Queen Elizabeth II, a position he held until September 16, 1989. That same year, the British newspaper, The Sun, revealed the existence of private correspondence between the Princess and Tim Laurence. The paper did not disclose the name of the sender; however, Buckingham Palace released a statement after the paper published its article.
“The stolen letters were addressed to the Princess Royal by Commander Timothy Laurence, the Queen’s Equerry. We have nothing to say about the contents of personal letters sent to Her Royal Highness by a friend which were stolen and which are the subject of a police investigation.”:
Yes, Tim could have fathered two children before he met the Princess Royal. However, it is strange that such a secret could be maintained for 40-plus years.
I searched the official British birth records from 1975 through 2009. No Tom, Thomas, or Amy Laurence with father’s surname Laurence. If he did father two children out of wedlock, it is entirely possible the children were registered with the mother’s surname.
If Tim had children out of wedlock, they would have been born before he met Princess Anne, not after the marriage. Princess Anne has two children with her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. In August 1985, his third child, a daughter, was born in New Zealand, the result of a brief affair. Anne and Mark separated in 1989 and were divorced in 1992.
In 1991, Heather Tonkin, the mother of Mark’s daughter, went public with a DNA test, confirming that Mark was her daughter, Felicity’s father. This was six years after Felicity was born.
Mark got dumped because of one child out of wedlock. Can you imagine Anne’s wrath if Tim had two children by another woman while still married to Anne? GULP!!!!!
In these modern days of social media and tabloid newspapers thriving on rumors and digging deep for dirt, I cannot imagine someone not spilling the beans on Tim’s alleged children.
It is possible that the Buckingham Palace staffer was having a bit of fun, which could mean the staffer is no longer working for Buckingham Palace, and the 75 Facts about the Princess Royal will be updated!!!!
Unless the Palace releases a statement confirming the children, I believe number 14 was a falsehood.
