Most Canadians are generally fond of the British Royal Family, and many Canadian horse owners and riders are even fonder of Zara Tindall MBE (formerly Phillips) and her mum, Princess Anne, in particular. Both women represented their country at the Olympics in three-day eventing; Anne competed at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and Zara at the 2012 London Olympics.
Neither Zara, 39, nor her brother Peter Phillips (who recently separated from his wife, Canadian Autumn Kelly) have a title due to their mother’s request after their birth, but that hasn’t stopped either from having success on a global scale. Zara was the Eventing World Champion in 2006 and was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year. She won team silver at the London Olympics in 2012, where her mother presented her with the medal.
Suffice to say that both mother and daughter are “horse mad.” And recently Zara has teamed up with her mum in supporting World Horse Welfare, a non-profit “that works to improve the lives of horses and horse-human partnerships in all of its guises.”