{"id":624595,"date":"2026-06-06T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624595\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:32:14","slug":"princess-beatrice-attends-peter-phillips-and-harriet-sperlings-wedding-amid-former-prince-andrew-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624595\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Beatrice Attends Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling\u2019s Wedding Amid Former Prince Andrew Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Princess Beatrice showed up in support of her cousin, Peter Phillips<\/a>, at his wedding to Harriet Sperling<\/a>, marking one of her most prominent royal appearances in months. The princess wore a green floral print Emilia Wickstead dress which she previously wore to Royal Ascot in 2024<\/a>. The royal wedding marked what could be a small step for Beatrice<\/a> and her sister Eugenie<\/a>\u2019s gradual return to public life. Once extremely socially active, the sisters have kept a low profile for most of this year as their parents have been embroiled in scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Edoardo held an umbrella open for his wife on a rainy Saturday.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s wedding will be held at All Saints\u2019 Church in this small Gloucestershire village in the Cotswolds<\/a>. Phillips, 48, the eldest grandchild of the late Queen Elizabeth<\/a> and the only son of Princess Anne, will marry the pediatric nurse and freelance writer, 45, in a private ceremony attended by several members of the royal family, including King Charles, Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

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Princess Beatrice in Emilia Wickstead.<\/p>\n

Beatrice\u2019s attendance was not a given. Her father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was stripped of his royal titles last year<\/a> amid intense scrutiny over his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>. In February<\/a>, the former Duke of York was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office<\/a>. He was released from custody the same day<\/a> after several hours of questioning. The arrest made him the first royal to be arrested in almost 400 years<\/a>. Thames Valley Police later made a public update at the end of May<\/a>, saying the investigation was continuing and that the force was assessing reports that a woman was taken to Windsor in 2010 for sexual purposes. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

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Beatrice also carried a butter yellow handbag and wore a matching headband.<\/p>\n

Andrew and her mother, Sarah Ferguson, were also both asked<\/a> to leave Royal Lodge<\/a>, where they had been living for decades<\/a>. Andrew now lives at Marsh Farm<\/a>, a private cottage on the Sandringham<\/a> estate, paid for by his brother, King Charles, while Ferguson\u2019s permanent residency plans<\/a> are unknown. After several weeks out of the public eye, she was most recently spotted at a ski resort<\/a> in the Austrian Alps. However, both of Beatrice\u2019s parents were present in December at the christening of her now one-year-old daughter, Athena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s appearance carried another significance regarding Beatrice. The last major royal wedding within the immediate Mountbatten-Windsor family was her own. Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi<\/a> in July 2020<\/a> at the Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge in Windsor in a ceremony kept deliberately small due to COVID-19 restrictions at the time. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip<\/a> were among the handful of guests present, and the bride wore one of her grandmother\u2019s dresses<\/a> with Queen Mary\u2019s Diamond Fringe Tiara<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rachel King (she\/her) is a news writer at\u00a0Town & Country. Before joining\u00a0T&C, she spent nearly a decade as an editor at\u00a0Fortune. Her work covering travel and lifestyle has appeared in\u00a0Forbes,\u00a0Observer,\u00a0Robb Report, Cruise Critic, and\u00a0Cool Hunting, among others. Originally from San Francisco, she lives in New York with her wife, their daughter, and a precocious labradoodle. Follow her on Instagram at\u00a0@rk.passport<\/a>.<\/p>\n