{"id":2443551,"date":"2026-06-03T18:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2443551"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:59:58","slug":"the-little-known-sister-who-will-not-attend-peter-phillips-wedding-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-little-known-sister-who-will-not-attend-peter-phillips-wedding-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The little-known sister who will not attend Peter Phillips&#8217; wedding this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As members of The Royal Family prepare to gather for Peter<br \/>\nPhillips\u2019 wedding to Harriet Sperling this weekend, one relative is<br \/>\nexpected to be missing from the celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales<br \/>\nare among the royals believed to be attending the ceremony at All<br \/>\nSaints\u2019 Church in Gloucestershire on Saturday. Peter\u2019s close-knit<br \/>\nextended family is also expected to be well represented.<\/p>\n<p>However, one little-known member of the family is unlikely to be<br \/>\namong the guests.<\/p>\n<p>Felicity Tonkin, the daughter of Captain Mark Phillips and New<br \/>\nZealand art teacher Heather Tonkin, is Peter and Zara Tindall\u2019s<br \/>\nhalf-sister. Despite sharing the same father, Felicity does not<br \/>\nhave any relationship with either of Princess Anne\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/royal\/inside-life-felicity-tonkin-princess-33804560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Her existence became public in<br \/>\n1991<\/a> when it emerged that Captain Mark had fathered a daughter<br \/>\nduring his marriage to Princess Anne. DNA testing subsequently<br \/>\nconfirmed his paternity.<\/p>\n<p>Felicity was born in New Zealand in August 1985 following a<br \/>\nbrief relationship between Mark Phillips and Heather Tonkin. The<br \/>\nrevelation sparked one of the most significant royal scandals of<br \/>\nthe era and came during the final years of Anne and Mark\u2019s<br \/>\nmarriage, which formally ended in divorce in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Now aged 40, Felicity has built a life far away from the royal<br \/>\nspotlight. Like her half-sister Zara, she developed a love of<br \/>\nhorses and went on to become a specialist equine veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, reports have consistently suggested that<br \/>\nFelicity has never met Peter or Zara. She was not present at<br \/>\nPeter\u2019s wedding to Autumn Phillips in 2008, nor at Zara\u2019s marriage<br \/>\nto Mike Tindall three years later.<\/p>\n<p>Family members have previously indicated that she has chosen to<br \/>\nmaintain a private life in New Zealand rather than pursue any<br \/>\nconnection with the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p>Friends have described Felicity as content with her life away<br \/>\nfrom public attention. In comments previously attributed to her,<br \/>\nshe suggested she had considered telling her side of the story but<br \/>\npreferred not to create difficulties for others, instead choosing<br \/>\nto live quietly.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalcentral.co.uk\/uk\/princess-annes-secret-stepdaughter-set-for-rare-appearance-at-peter-phillips-wedding-217901\/\"><br \/>\nThe situation contrasts sharply with Peter and Zara\u2019s relationship<br \/>\nwith their other half-sister, Stephanie Phillips.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephanie is the daughter of Captain Mark Phillips and his<br \/>\nsecond wife, Sandy Pflueger, and grew up on the Gatcombe Estate<br \/>\nalongside Princess Anne\u2019s family. She has remained close to Peter<br \/>\nand Zara throughout her life, serving as a flower girl at both of<br \/>\ntheir weddings and regularly attending family occasions.<\/p>\n<p>When Stephanie married William Hosier in 2022, Peter and Zara<br \/>\nwere among the guests, while several of their children played<br \/>\nimportant roles in the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Stephanie is widely expected to attend Peter\u2019s<br \/>\nwedding this weekend, while Felicity is unlikely to make the<br \/>\njourney from New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As members of The Royal Family prepare to gather for Peter Phillips\u2019 wedding to Harriet Sperling this weekend, one relative is expected to be missing from the celebrations. King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales are among the royals believed to be attending the ceremony at All Saints\u2019 Church in Gloucestershire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2443552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-little-known-sister-who-will-not-attend-Peter-Phillips-wedding.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443553,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443551\/revisions\/2443553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}