Peter Phillips is set to marry fiancée Harriet Sperling in June, and Andrew is not expected to be there. A report in the Daily Mail says Phillips has invited the royal family to the wedding, but not his ex-Prince Andrew, who is unlikely to make an appearance.
The guest list matters because the wedding is shaping up as more than a family celebration. It is also the latest sign of how firmly the family is trying to keep its distance from Andrew, whose long association with Jeffrey Epstein has kept him under intense scrutiny.
Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, announced his engagement to an NHS nurse and writer in August 2025. The June ceremony now carries added weight because it brings together a branch of the family that has largely tried to keep its private life out of the glare, even as the wider House of Windsor continues to manage the fallout around Andrew.
That fallout sharpened in October 2025, when Buckingham Palace said Andrew would no longer be referred to as prince and would instead be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. The palace also said he had the legal right to remain at Royal Lodge under his lease agreement, but said he had been formally asked to vacate the property and find somewhere else to live.
The move was paired with unusually stark language from the palace, which said Their Majesties’ thoughts and utmost sympathies had been and would remain with the victims and survivors of abuse. It was a public signal that the pressure around Andrew has not eased, even as the family tries to draw a line under the scandal.
Against that backdrop, his exclusion from Phillips and Sperling’s wedding looks deliberate rather than routine. The ceremony is being described by insiders as intimate, but it also amounts to a deeply significant royal gathering, one that will include members of the family and exclude the man whose presence would have turned a private day into a renewed public test.
For Sarah Ferguson, who remains closely associated with Andrew in the public eye, the decision underlines how isolated he has become inside the wider royal circle. The June wedding will go ahead with celebration at its center. Andrew, after years of scandal and a fresh palace rebuke, is being kept at the edge of the frame.
