‘THEY JUST GREW APART’
HE WAS her first grandchild, the first grandchild to get married, the first to make her a great-grandmother – and now, the first of her grandchildren to get divorced.
And for Queen Elizabeth, already reeling in what can only be called the royal family’s winter of discontent, the collapse of Peter Phillips’ marriage is yet another bitter pill to swallow.
Peter (42), son of the monarch’s only daughter, Princess Anne, recently announced he and Autumn (41), his Canadian-born wife of 12 years, had decided to separate. But things were amicable and it was “the best course of action for their two children and their ongoing friendship”.
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