Peter Phillips & Harriet Sperling Wedding: 2026 Guide

Peter Phillips married Harriet Sperling on Saturday 6 June 2026 at All Saints Church, Kemble, a parish church in the Cotswolds. Peter, 48, is Princess Anne’s eldest son and the King’s nephew. Harriet is an NHS paediatric nurse specialist. She wore a custom Emilia Wickstead gown. The church was full, and it rained.

By Matt, Editor at Weddings Hub. I’ve covered UK weddings since 2018, and the rules around royal and second-marriage church ceremonies in particular. This page was first written before the wedding. It now reports what happened, using Press Association, Associated Press and royal-jewellery coverage, plus the official photographs.

Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling married on Saturday 6 June 2026 at All Saints Church in Kemble, a small village in Gloucestershire. The couple announced their engagement in August 2025. It was a parish-church wedding, not a televised state occasion. Peter is not a working royal. Harriet is an NHS nurse. The church was full at its capacity of 150, according to the Press Association. Its stone origins go back to the 12th century. Below we set out the confirmed details.

When and where the Peter Phillips wedding took place

The wedding took place on Saturday 6 June 2026 at All Saints Church, Kemble. Kemble is a Cotswolds village about four miles south-west of Cirencester. It sits near the source of the River Thames. The village has its own railway station on the line from London Paddington.

A stone church was first built here between 1100 and 1250. The west tower is 13th-century and the oldest part still standing. Its spire was replaced in 1824, and the rest of the church was largely rebuilt in 1876-77. It holds around 150 people. That capped the guest list at a fraction of the 1,900 who attended Westminster Abbey in 2011.

The Royalist reported that Harriet was living in Kemble when the romance began. Peter lives on the Gatcombe Park estate, his mother’s home, a short drive away.

Heavy rain fell on the day. Guests held umbrellas as they threw cream rose petals over the couple outside the church. Local florist Millie Richardson filled the church with locally sourced flowers.

The dress, the tiara and the photographs

Harriet wore a custom gown by Emilia Wickstead. The Royalist described a square-neck column silhouette with a lace over-jacket and a three-metre train. AP described it as a high-neck lace gown. Wickstead said: “We aligned on something authentic, traditional and modern.”

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She wore the Pragnell Tiara, lent by the family jeweller Pragnell, with Pragnell diamond and pearl earrings. Her shoes were by Jimmy Choo. Her bouquet included sweet peas, lily of the valley and myrtle.

Her brother, Nicholas Sanders, walked her down the aisle in honour of their late father, Rupert. There were three bridesmaids: Peter’s daughters, Savannah and Isla, and Harriet’s daughter, Georgina. Their dresses were also by Emilia Wickstead.

Mark Nicholson was the official photographer. The couple released two official images on 8 June 2026. They include portraits taken in the conservatory at Gatcombe Park.

Who is Harriet Sperling?

Harriet Sperling is an NHS paediatric nurse specialist. Grazia reports she was born in 1980. She has a daughter, Georgina, from her first marriage to Antonio St John Sperling. Her late father, Rupert Sanders, was a solicitor.

She and Peter were first linked publicly in 2024. The engagement was announced in August 2025. The couple joined the carriage procession at Royal Ascot as guests of the King and Queen.

She has also written for the Christian magazine Woman Alive. In a March 2024 column, under the name Harriet Sanders, she wrote about raising her daughter as a single mother. She took the name Mrs Phillips on marriage.

Remarrying in church after divorce

Both Peter and Harriet had been married before. Peter married Autumn Kelly in 2008 at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. They separated in 2020 after 12 years of marriage and share two daughters. Harriet’s first marriage also ended.

Since 2002, Church of England guidance has allowed a divorced person to remarry in church while a former spouse is still living. The decision rests with the officiating minister, who can decline on grounds of conscience.

At Kemble, the Reverend Dr Steve Bullock led the service. The Reverend Nicky Gumbel, the former vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, gave the blessing and the address. It was a full Anglican wedding, not a service of blessing. By contrast, the King and Queen had a civil ceremony in 2005, followed by a blessing at St George’s Chapel.

Who attended

The Press Association reported these guests:

• The King and Queen - Peter’s uncle and his wife, cheered by the crowd on arrival
• The Princess Royal - Peter’s mother
• The Prince and Princess of Wales - Peter’s first cousin and his wife
• Zara and Mike Tindall - Peter’s sister and brother-in-law, with their daughters Mia and Lena
• The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh - with their son James, Earl of Wessex
• Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie - with their husbands, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi and Jack Brooksbank
• The bride’s family - her mother, Mary, and her sisters, Rebecca and Louisa

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend. Peter’s childhood friend Andrew Tucker stood beside him as his “right-hand man”. The King and Queen left by helicopter for the Epsom Derby, where they presented the trophy.

The reception was at Gatcombe Park, home of the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence. Bentleys Entertainments planned the day. Peter is not a working royal and has never held an official royal role.

How the Phillips wedding compares to recent royal weddings

The Phillips-Sperling wedding sits at the small end of the modern royal scale. The closest comparison is Princess Beatrice’s pandemic-era ceremony at the Royal Chapel of All Saints, Royal Lodge, which was deliberately tiny.

Wedding	Date	Venue	Guests	Televised	Working royals?
William & Kate	2011	Westminster Abbey	~1,900	Yes	Yes
Harry & Meghan	2018	St George's Chapel, Windsor	~600	Yes	Yes
Eugenie & Jack	2018	St George's Chapel, Windsor	~850	Yes	No
Beatrice & Edoardo	2020	All Saints Chapel, Royal Lodge	~20	No	No
Phillips & Sperling	2026	All Saints Church, Kemble	~150 (church full)	No	No

The pattern is clear. Working-royal weddings are televised national events. Non-working-royal weddings are private parish ceremonies. Peter Phillips’s wedding followed the second template.

What it means for Cotswolds wedding tourism

The Cotswolds has become a leading high-end UK wedding destination. On 26 July 2025, Eve Jobs married Olympic showjumper Harry Charles at St Michael and All Angels in Great Tew. The reception was at Estelle Manor, at an estimated cost of £5 million. The Phillips-Sperling wedding followed in another Cotswolds parish church, further south-west.

Two factors drive the trend. Soho Farmhouse, Estelle Manor, Daylesford and the cluster of country-house hotels give the area private, discreet venues. And the parish churches across Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire offer something a marquee cannot: real history, real walls and seating for 100 to 300. That suits a guest list of close family and friends.

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