Editing Peter Phillips (section)

==Early life and education==

Peter Phillips was born at 10:46&nbsp;am on 15 November 1977, in the Lindo Wing of [[St Mary's Hospital, London]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=47380 |date=16 November 1977 |page=14415}}</ref><ref name="BBC On This Day"/> He was the first child of [[Princess Anne]] and [[Mark Phillips]], who had married in 1973, and the first grandchild of [[Elizabeth II]] and Prince Philip.<ref name="BBC On This Day">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539937.stm|title=1977: Princess Anne gives birth to Master Phillips|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=15 November 1977|access-date=9 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060416103647/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/newsid_2539000/2539937.stm|archive-date=16 April 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> At the time of his birth, there was a [[21-gun salute#United Kingdom|41-gun salute]] from the [[Tower of London]].<ref name="BBC On This Day"/> He was [[baptised]] on 22 December 1977 by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] [[Donald Coggan]] in the Music Room of [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref name=Profile>{{cite news|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5599.asp|title=The Princess Royal: Marriage and Family|website=The British Monarchy|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070630231134/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5599.asp|archive-date=30 June 2007}}</ref> His godparents were his maternal uncle, [[Prince Charles]]; [[Geoffrey Tiarks]]; Captain Hamish Lochore; Lady Cecil Cameron of Lochiel and [[Jane Holderness-Roddam]].<ref name=Godparents>{{cite news|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page3081.asp|title=Buckingham Palace Press Release|website=The British Monarchy|date=8 April 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020180635/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page3081.asp|archive-date=20 October 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Badminton Horse Trials, Gloucestershire 1983 - Geograph 6574623.jpg|thumb|upright|Phillips with his mother and grandmother at the [[Badminton Horse Trials]] in 1983]]
Phillips was [[line of succession to the British Throne|fifth in line to the throne]] at birth and remained so until the birth of his cousin [[William, Prince of Wales]] in 1982. His parents were said to have refused offers from his grandmother Queen [[Elizabeth II]] that would have led to his being born in the [[peerage]]. Phillips was the first legitimate grandchild of a monarch in more than 500 years to be born without a title or [[courtesy title]].<ref name="BBC On This Day"/>{{refn|Before him the last grandchildren born without any title or style were the children of [[Cecily of York]], the daughter of King [[Edward IV]] of England.}} Phillips has a younger sister, [[Zara Tindall]] (née Phillips; born 1981), and two younger half-sisters, Felicity Wade (née Tonkin; born 1985),<ref name="NZHerald">{{cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11907630|title=Zara Tindall's 'secret' nephew born in NZ|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|date=20 August 2017|access-date=12 August 2020|quote=Wade, former Tonkin, is the daughter of Mark Phillips – also father to Queen Elizabeth's grandchildren Zara Tindall and her brother Peter Phillips.}}</ref> the daughter of Mark Phillips and his former mistress Heather Tonkin; and Stephanie Phillips (born 1997), the daughter from his father's second marriage to [[Sandy Pflueger]].

Phillips went to [[Port Regis Prep School]] in [[Shaftesbury]], [[Dorset]] before following some of his family by attending [[Gordonstoun School]] in [[Moray]], Scotland. Whilst at Gordonstoun, he was chosen to be [[head boy]].<ref name="Hello Profile">{{cite news|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/peterphillips/|title=Profile – Peter Phillips|magazine=Hello!|date=July 2001|access-date=9 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103215101/http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/peterphillips/|archive-date=3 November 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> During his [[gap year]], he went to [[Sydney]] and worked for Sports Entertainment Limited (SEL), a company to which he would later return; he also worked for [[Jackie Stewart]]'s [[Formula One]] racing team during that time.<ref name="ek">{{cite book|last1=Knightley|first1=Emma|editor1-last=Coco|editor1-first=Tatiana|title=Peter Phillips: The Life of the First-Born Grandson of Queen Elizabeth II|date=14 November 2017|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43182043-peter-phillips|access-date=9 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209143551/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43182043-peter-phillips|archive-date=9 December 2018|format=Kindle|url-status=live}}</ref> Phillips represented Scotland at [[rugby union]] at youth and junior level in the mid-1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12056990.rugby-cap-for-peter-phillips/|title=Rugby cap for Peter Phillips|work=The Herald|date=29 November 1995|access-date=13 August 2023}}</ref>

He attended the [[University of Exeter]] and graduated with a degree in [[Sports Science]].<ref name="BBC 2007">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6920860.stm|title=Princess Anne's son set to marry|publisher=BBC News|date=28 July 2007|access-date=28 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808091600/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6920860.stm|archive-date=8 August 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> He played for the Exeter University [[rugby league]] team.