Mark Phillipps

[nq:1]Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London. Was he married to royalty once, or still?[/nq]
Is that Capt Mark Phillips, former husband of Princess Anne? It is if it's the gold medalist (Munich) member of the British equestrian team.

[nq:2]Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London. Was he married to royalty once, or still?[/nq]
[nq:1]Is that Capt Mark Phillips, former husband of Princess Anne? It is if it's the gold medalist (Munich) member of the British equestrian team.[/nq]
I don't know if it is or not. At least I see that I got the name right. This guy reports the news from England sometimes, probably on the BB

[nq:1]Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London. Was he married to royalty once, or still?[/nq]
You need to have double-checked the required number of 'l's and 'p's before anyone can be sure of answering. There are four major versions of what is pronounced fillips, involving between one and two 'l's and two and three 'p's.
I'm sure there is *a* Mark *** working for the BBC
John De

[nq:2]Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London. Was he married to royalty once, or still?[/nq]
[nq:1]You need to have double-checked the required number of 'l's and 'p's before anyone can be sure of answering. There ... one and two 'l's and two and three 'p's. I'm sure there is *a* Mark *** working for the BBC[/nq]
Doesn't the association with royalty rather narrow down the choices?

[nq:2]You need to have double-checked the required number of 'l's ... sure there is *a* Mark *** working for the BBC[/nq]
This is a large part of the reason I asked here instead of going to the BBC site. But I did now, and there are no llpp there, and thought there are 635 llp, there were only about 6 of them which used both first and last names together (even though I put them in single quote

[nq:1]This is a large part of the reason I asked here instead of going to the BBC site. But I ... on the same radio station, but not during the BBC part. I still figured you might have heard of him.[/nq]
ex-Captain Mark Phillips (him what was married to Princess Anne) was not very adept at stringing words together, IIRC. I don't think he'd make a very good radio reporter.

David
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[nq:2]You need to have double-checked the required number of 'l's ... sure there is *a* Mark *** working for the BBC[/nq]
[nq:1]Doesn't the association with royalty rather narrow down the choices?[/nq]
If there *is* a connection with Royalty. The original question was "Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London?" and the supplementary was to do with a possible connection to Royalty.

[nq:2]Doesn't the association with royalty rather narrow down the choices?[/nq]
[nq:1]If there *is* a connection with Royalty. The original question was "Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London?" and ... your version in the subject line or in the body of the post which is the one to look for?"[/nq]
I'm not sure, and I guess it was my inability to spell the name that made me spell it

[nq:2]Doesn't the association with royalty rather narrow down the choices?[/nq]
[nq:1]If there *is* a connection with Royalty. The original question was "Who is Mark Phillips, the newsman from London?" and the supplementary was to do with a possible connection to Royalty.[/nq]
Granted, but my assumption was that there was some association with Royalty else meirman would not have included t

[nq:2]If there *is* a connection with Royalty. The original question ... supplementary was to do with a possible connection to Royalty.[/nq]
[nq:1]Granted, but my assumption was that there was some association with Royalty else meirman would not have included that bit. If he's not familiar with the person at all, it's difficult to imagine that he pulled the Royalty association out thin air.[/n