Pictures as royal family descends on village for wedding

The royal family have begun to descend on a Cotswolds village near Swindon and Wiltshire for a royal wedding.

The royals are coming together to celebrate the wedding of the Princess Royal’s son Peter Phillips on Saturday, June 6 and pictures from a rehearsal have already been released by PA.

The King and Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Zara and Mike Tindall and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are among those expected to descend on the small village of Kemble, near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, for the private nuptials.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not attend.

It is not known whether an invitation was extended to Mr Phillips’s cousin Harry, Meghan and their children, amid reports the Sussexes were left off the guest list.

Harry and Mr Phillips were close when younger but it is reported they have lost touch, with the duke, who has a longstanding rift with his brother William, moving to the US, from where he has criticised members of his family and the royal institution.

Peter Phillips attends a rehearsal ahead of his wedding to Harriet Sperling at All Saints Church in Kemble, Gloucestershire. (Image: PA/PA Wire)

The late Queen Elizabeth II’s eldest grandson will tie the knot with NHS nurse Harriet Sperling in a ceremony at All Saints Church.

Also expected to be there are Mr Phillips’s children Savannah, 15, and 14-year-old Isla, as well as Ms Sperling’s teenage daughter Georgina.

Mr Phillips’s half-sister Stephanie, who was a bridesmaid at his first wedding, is also reported to be joining the congregation.

All Saints Church, with its tall spire, sits in the heart of Kemble, with its congregation described as “very much involved in village life”.

Mr Phillips lives nearby on his mother’s Gatcombe Park estate in Minchinhampton.

The 48-year-old is the King’s nephew, William and Harry’s first cousin, the brother of Zara, and the son of Anne and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips.

Mr Phillips split from his first wife Autumn in 2020 after 12 years of marriage and shares custody of their two children.

The pair married in a grand royal wedding in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in 2008.

Mr Phillips’s engagement to Ms Sperling, who he began dating in 2024, was announced in August last year.

The couple were guests of Charles and Camilla at Royal Ascot in June, and invited to take part in the traditional carriage procession the royal family make on to the famous Berkshire racecourse to signal the start of the day.

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