Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s blended family have arrived at a church in the Cotswolds for a dress rehearsal ahead of their Royal Wedding tomorrow. 

Preparations are well underway for the highly-anticipated event with a number of guests, including Zara Phillips, gathering at Gloucestershire’s All Saints’ Church this afternoon. 

Zara, the daughter of Princess Anne, was pictured wearing a dark grey jacket and sunglasses as she chatted to Ms Sperling, who donned a striped jumper for the run-through. 

Harriet’s daughter, Georgina, 13, and Peter’s daughter from his first marriage Savannah Phillips, 15, were also seen walking together in a touching display of sisterly solidarity. 

While Peter introduced Harriet to Savannah and his other daughter Isla shortly after they started dating in May 2024, it is understood that Georgina only met the royal family at Balmoral last year. 

Peter, 45, is set to wed his NHS fiancée Harriet, 45, on Saturday in what insiders have described as an intimate but deeply significant affair.

Crews have been working tirelessly to help set up for the event – carrying large urns, decorations and various plants into the church to begin setting up for the ceremony. 

Zara Phillips has taken part in a dress rehearsal for her brother Peter’s intimate Royal Wedding to Harriet Sperling at a church in the Cotswolds

Harriet’s daughter Georgina is pictured left with Savannah Phillips at the dress rehearsal today 

Harriet Sperling attends a dress rehearsal for her wedding this afternoon 

Crews have been working tirelessly to help set up for the event – carrying large urns, decorations and various plants into the church to begin setting up for the ceremony

The festivities are being overseen by Bentley’s Entertainments, a blue-chip firm which oversaw David and Victoria Beckham’s wedding, multiple parties for Sir Elton John, Princess Eugenie’s Windsor wedding to Jack Brooksbank, and Peter Phillips’ 2008 wedding to Autumn Kelly. 

Peter and Harriet officially announced their engagement in August last year after first being linked in May 2024.

In a statement to announce the joyous news, they said both families were ‘delighted’.

Fellow divorcee Harriet, who shares a 13-year-old daughter, Georgina, from her first marriage, boasts wealthy connections, sharing a relation to the Duke of Gloucester through her late father, Rupert Sperling.

Peter, who is 19th in the line of succession, popped the question with a sparkling ring which boasts a subtle but touching tribute to his beloved grandmother – the late Queen Elizabeth II – having been designed by the same jeweller behind her iconic 1946 ring.

Born Harriet Eleanor Sander to Mary Hoskins and Rupert Sanders, the 46-year-old has three siblings, Nicholas, Louisa, and Rebecca.

According to an online bio, the NHS nurse is ‘passionate about early brain development in babies and seeing children thrive’, Tatler reported.

She has previously reflected on being a single mother in a poignant essay for Woman Alive, a Christian monthly magazine for women, in which she admitted ‘resources were scarce and the future was uncertain’ at the beginning.

Harriet wrote: ‘In the earlier years of my journey as a single mother to my daughter, resources were scarce, and the future was uncertain.

Isla Phillips is pictured beside her father Peter Phillips at the run-though this afternoon 

Peter, 45, is set to wed his NHS fiancée Harriet, 45, on Saturday in what insiders have described as an intimate but deeply significant affair

Zara, the daughter of Princess Anne, was pictured wearing a dark grey jacket and sunglasses as she chatted to Ms Sperling, who donned a striped jumper

‘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.’

She added: ‘This extraordinary bond between a single mother and her daughter, marked by a mix of joy, challenges and unwavering love, is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

‘It’s a reminder that sometimes, when we think ‘we have nothing, we actually have everything’ we need.’

Shortly after, she met Peter as the Daily Mail’s Editor-at-large Richard Kay reported friends of the couple saying, ‘This is a romance moving at pace.

‘They are so comfortable together, they look like they have known each other for ages.’

For royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams, there is no doubt that Peter and Harriet’s wedding will be vastly different from his previous nuptials to Autumn Kelly that left the Royal Family ‘bewildered’.

Held at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel in 2008, the high-profile event saw 300 guests gather to celebrate the happy couple, including 70 members of Autumn’s family and even a young Kate Middleton.

But now, 17 years on, the day is often remembered for the highly intimate snapshot into the family life of the royals it provided, all thanks to a controversial deal the newlyweds signed with Hello! magazine.

Peter and Harriet officially announced their engagement in August last year after first being linked in May 2024 (picture from the dress rehearsal) 

Born Harriet Eleanor Sander to Mary Hoskins and Rupert Sanders, the 46-year-old has three siblings, Nicholas, Louisa, and Rebecca

As a £500,000 wedding present to the couple, Hello! were given exclusive rights to picture most of the ceremony including inside the chapel and the reception in Frogmore House.

This resulted in a 100-page exclusive feature from the magazine, which included remarkably candid shots of the royals including images of the family laughing and one photo of Prince Harry giving his grandmother – Elizabeth II – a peck on the cheek.

They were a far cry from the traditionally stage-managed wedding photographs released by the Royal Family.

And the spread was not well received by the Firm, with senior members of the family – including the late Queen – allegedly less than impressed, having felt blindsided by the publication of the pictures.

Buckingham Palace released a statement shortly afterwards claiming that the deal was a ‘serious error of judgement.’

Even politicians at the time also chimed in, with Labour MP Ian Gibson claiming the British public would be shocked to see their monarch in those pages.

The pair later welcomed daughters Savannah, now 15, and Isla, 13, before separating in 2019. Their divorce was finalised in 2021.