There are now just hours to go until Peter and Harriet tie the knot in Kemble, which is equidistant from Gatcombe Park, Princess Anne’s Gloucestershire estate, and the Sperling family home in South Cerney.
The couple have said the wedding will be ‘intimate but significant’. But even a small royal wedding will pack plenty of star power. Prince William and the Princess of Wales, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie and even King Charles III and Queen Camilla are among those expected to attend. Also on the guest list? Peter’s father, Captain Mark Phillips, and his half-sister Stephanie Phillips, whose mother is Capt Phillips’ second wife, Sandy Pflueger. It is understood Prince Harry, Peter’s cousin, was not invited.
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Star of the show: Harriet embraces a friend outside the church as she prepares to marry Peter in the biggest wedding of the year on Saturday 6 June
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Harriet, who is understood to have split from her former husband, a fitness instructor, when Georgina was just two years old, will be supported by her mother and three siblings. Her father sadly died in 2023, just a year before she started dating Peter after the pair crossed paths at their daughters’ hockey match. (The girls all play on the same local team).
Following the service, it is understood a reception will be hosted at Gatcombe. Purchased by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976 for Princess Anne and Capt Phillips, the Grade II-listed property dates back to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, when the manors of Minchinhampton and Avening were granted to Lord Windsor, though his family would go on to sell the land to Philip Sheppard in 1656. Once home to the annual Festival of British Eventing (declared in 2023 to be ‘unfeasible to run’ by Mark and Peter Phillips), Gatcombe has played a key part in Princess Anne’s royal career. Both her children were raised on the estate.