Two royal unions on the horizon as Philips to wed

THE eldest grand-daughter of Britain’s queen, Zara Phillips, is to wed her rugby-playing boyfriend Mike Tindall, Buckingham Palace has announced, in a marriage of world-beating sports stars.

Setting up the prospect of two British royal weddings in 2011, the announcement comes a month after her cousin Prince William, the second in line to the British throne, revealed his engagement to university sweetheart Kate Middleton.

Phillips, 29, the daughter of the queen’s only daughter, Princess Anne, is an eventing world champion and 12th in line to the throne.