Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling have unveiled their first official royal portraits, days after marrying on June 6. The images turn a private wedding into a public milestone for a couple now being folded into the wider story of Anne, Princess Royal’s family.
The timing is what gives the release its weight. The portraits arrived on Monday, shortly after the couple’s Gloucestershire ceremony, and show them first at All Saints Church in a village in Gloucestershire, England, then inside the conservatory at Gatcombe Park, the home of Princess Anne, where the reception was held. In the first image, Sperling wears a lace-covered Emilia Wickstead gown, custom Jimmy Choo heels, a tiara, earrings and her engagement ring. Phillips appears beside her in a black suit with a light blue vest and striped pants. It is the kind of formal portrait that signals a new chapter before the wedding still has time to feel settled.
That chapter has been unfolding quickly. Phillips and Sperling were first spotted together at the Badminton Horse Trials in May 2024, got engaged in August 2025 and announced their wedding date earlier this year before exchanging vows on June 6. The portraits are the first official visual record of the marriage, and they place the couple in settings that tie the celebration directly to the royal household around Princess Anne.
There is, though, a less polished edge to the story. This is the second marriage for both Phillips and Sperling, even as the release frames the wedding as a fresh royal milestone. Phillips was previously married to Autumn Kelly from 2008 to 2021 and shares two teenage daughters with her. Sperling, a National Health Service nurse, shares a daughter with her former husband, fitness instructor Antonio St. John Sperling. The portraits do not hide any of that history; they sit on top of it, presenting a new public image for a couple whose lives already include children, former partners and years of family ties.
What comes next has not been set out publicly. For now, the portraits do what they are meant to do: they mark the marriage, place it inside the Princess Anne orbit at Gatcombe Park, and confirm that Phillips is now the first of Queen Elizabeth’s eight grandchildren to remarry. The next time the couple appears in public, those photographs will be measured against the same new standard.
