Harriet Sperling Wears Emilia Wickstead To Marry Peter Phillips Among Royals in Gloucestershire
The bride wore the Kate Middleton-favored designer complete with an almost 10-foot train for a wedding that gathered the breadth of the royal family in the English countryside.
Reported by Vogue.
When Peter Phillips — son of Princess Anne, eldest grandchild of the late Queen Elizabeth — married paediatric nurse Harriet Sperling over the weekend, the guest list read like a full royal roll call. King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Prince William, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Anne herself gathered at All Saints Church in Kemble, Gloucestershire, for what was, by every account, a supremely English summer wedding. But it was the bride's gown that commanded the room.
Sperling wore Emilia Wickstead — a choice that, in royal circles, borders on instinct. The dress: a white ivory crepe column with a square neckline, topped by a fitted lace overjacket with sheer high neck and long sleeves embroidered with wildflower motifs. The finale was a nearly ten-foot scallop-hemmed train drawn from a 19th-century silhouette, according to Vogue. Wickstead described the months-long, hundreds-of-hours atelier process as building something "authentic, traditional, and modern" — the lace itself referencing the local flora of both the bride's and groom's hometowns. The Italian ivory crepe, rarely used in bridal, was chosen precisely because it "moulds to the body." Custom Jimmy Choo ivory satin heels, a tiara, and diamond earrings from Mayfair jeweler Pragnell — who also crafted her three-stone engagement ring and has a longstanding relationship with the royal family — completed the look.
The Guest Dressing Was Its Own Event
Catherine, Princess of Wales, delivered the definitive wedding-guest masterclass: a blush-pink Roland Mouret drop-waist pleated dress, Kiki McDonough double drop earrings, a bracelet once belonging to Princess Diana, and a Jane Taylor boater in a complementary shade. Understated, loaded with meaning, precisely calibrated. The broader guest dressing followed suit — pastels, wide-brimmed hats, top hats and tails — the visual language of an English country wedding executed at its highest register.
The bridesmaids, including the couple's daughters Savannah, Isla, and Georgia, also wore Emilia Wickstead, built from the same fabrics as the bridal gown — a cohesive, considered choice that extended the design story rather than merely echoing it.
If there's a throughline here, it's that the most enduring bridal dressing isn't about spectacle — it's about intention, and Sperling wore hers from hem to train.
Read the original at Vogue.
