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Timothy Laurence
Royal Navy Admiral
Male
Born
Mar 1, 1955
Age
58
Hometown
London
Vice Admiral Sir Timothy James Hamilton Laurence KCVO CB ADC(P) (born 1 March 1955), is a retired British naval officer and the second husband of HRH The Princess Royal, the only daughter of HM The Queen. Laurence was Equerry to The Queen, 1986-1989.
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CHILDHOOD
1955
Birth
Born on March 1, 1955.
TEENAGE
1973
18 Years Old
He was promoted to midshipman on 1 January 1973, and acting sub-lieutenant on 1 January 1975.
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TWENTIES
1977
22 Years Old
He was promoted to Lieutenant 10 months early, on 1 March 1977.
1978
23 Years Old
In 1978 he was attached to the training establishment HMS Vernon and in the next year served on the minesweeper HMS Pollington.
1980
25 Years Old
Laurence served briefly as Navigating Officer of the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia, and 1980 to 1982 in the same role on the destroyer HMS Sheffield.
1982
27 Years Old
He took command of the patrol boat HMS Cygnet off Northern Ireland in 1982, as part of the patrols for IRA gun-runners.
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THIRTIES
1989
34 Years Old
In October 1989 he was posted to the new frigate HMS Boxer, and took over as Commanding Officer on 30 January 1990, at the age of 34.
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1992
37 Years Old
He met Princess Anne when he served as an Equerry to The Queen, when her first marriage to Captain Mark Phillips broke down. Commander Laurence and Anne were married 12 December 1992, in a Church of Scotland ceremony at Crathie Parish Church, Ballater, near Balmoral, the Church of Scotland permitting the remarriage of divorced people.
1994
39 Years Old
On 16 May 1994 he was appointed the first Military Assistant to the Secretary of State for Defence (Malcolm Rifkind), to provide military advice in his private office.
FORTIES
1995
40 Years Old
Laurence was promoted to Captain on 30 June 1995, and until 1996 was in command of the frigate HMS Cumberland.
In May 1996 the ship was back from the Adriatic, where HMS Cumberland served in the NATO-led IFOR.
1997
42 Years Old
From July 1997 he was back in the Ministry of Defence, initially on the Naval Staff and then from June 1998, on promotion to Commodore, as a member of the Implementation Team for the 1998 Strategic Defence Review.
From January 1999 he was Hudson Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he wrote a paper on the relationship between Humanitarian Assistance and Peacekeeping.
2001
46 Years Old
From 2001 to the spring of 2004 he was back at the Ministry of Defence, as Director of Navy Resources and Programmes.
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FIFTIES
2007
52 Years Old
On 30 April 2007 he was promoted to Vice Admiral, and made Chief Executive of Defence Estates (since renamed Defence Infrastructure Organisation, as of 2008).
2009
54 Years Old
He became Head of Profession for the British Government's Property Asset Management community in July 2009.
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2010
55 Years Old
He retired from the Navy in August 2010 and now pursues a portfolio of mainly non-executive and charitable interests, with a particular emphasis on property and regeneration.
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2011
56 Years Old
He received no peerage on marriage, but was knighted by The Queen in June 2011 as a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
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