Surprisingly down-to-earth job of royal family’s newest member
Topics: Royal Family, Wedding, News, NHS
Greg Harris
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Topics: Royal Family, Wedding, News, NHS
Harriet Sperling and Peter Phillips are tying the knot on 6 June and the latest addition to the royal family has a job that is surprisingly humble you probably wouldn't expect.
The couple are getting married at All Saints Church in Cirencester, in what has been described as an ‘intimate but deeply significant’ ceremony. Sperling is the first royal bride since 2020, when Princess Beatrice married Edorado Mapelli Monzi in a private Windsor ceremony.
Phillips' mother, Princess Anne, and her husband Sir Timothy Laurence are on the guest list, as well as King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Prince William, the Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
The wedding has been described a modern-day Brady Bunch as both Sperling and Phillips have their own children and will blend their families into one.
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Sperling, 45, works as a senior NHS paediatric nurse. She studied at St. Mary’s University and has worked at Evelina London Children’s Hospital, which is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Sperling is a distant relative of he Duke of Gloucester through her late father, the BBC reports.
She has one teenage daughter from a previous relationship and she has also published essays discussing motherhood, faith and other topics. She met Phillips in early 2024 and their relationship became public in May the same year.
The nurse's family comes from Gloucestershire and she is one of four siblings.
In an article she wrote for Woman Alive, she reflected on spending a decade as a single mother.
In the earlier years of my journey as a single mother to my daughter, resources were scarce, and the future was uncertain,” she wrote. “Yet, in the absence of material security, I discovered the strength and life that comes from true selfless love. A love that is able to be solely devoted to your child.”
The couple’s engagement was announced on 1 August 2025.
A statement confirming their union said: "Mr Peter Phillips, the son of HRH The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips, and Ms Harriet Sperling, daughter of the late Mr Rupert Sanders and Mrs Mary Sanders of Gloucestershire, have today confirmed their official engagement."
Phillips, 48, is the grandchild of the late Queen Elizabeth II. He was married to Autumn Kelly between 2008 and 2021. Together they have two children, a daughter named Savannah Anne Kathleen, and another daughter named Isla Elizabeth.
Phillips and his wife confirmed they had separated in 2019 and were planning to divorce.