The British royal family turned out in droves Saturday for the intimate nuptials of Harriet Sperling and Peter Phillips.
The couple, who met through their teenage daughters two years ago, exchanged vows in front of friends and family including Princess Anne and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at All Saints Church in Kemble, Gloucester on Saturday, June 6.
Summer dresses, hats, top hats, and tails were the order of the day as the congregation entered the pretty village church, which is equidistant from Gatcombe Park—Princess Anne’s Gloucestershire estate where Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall grew up—and the Sperling family home in South Cerney.
Among the early arrivals was Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs, co-founder of Beulah London, a label loved by Harriet and the Princess of Wales, and her husband, Rupert Finch, who was linked to Kate Middleton in her pre-royal days.
But it was the royal family who stole the show. King Charles III and Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales were there for the romantic occasion. Also in attendance were Peter Phillips’ cousins, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, as well as his mother, Princess Anne, and his sister Zara Tindall, who was accompanied by her husband Mike and their daughters, Mia and Lena.
In a delightful yet surprising turn of events, Princess Margaret’s branch of the royal family were represented by Lady Sarah Chatto, her son Samuel Chatto and his girlfriend Eleanor Ekserdjian, as well as David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, his daughter Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones and his girlfriend, Isabelle de la Bruyère, who made her most high-profile royal appearance to date.
Princess Beatrice and husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi arrived alongside Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank. It marks the York sisters’ most high-profile engagement since Christmas as they took a step back from public life while scandal engulfed their parents, AndrewMountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson. (It is understood neither was invited to the wedding).
