Meet Peter Phillips’ new girlfriend Harriet Sperling, who has already met King Charles and Queen Camilla, and was spotted with her beau at Wimbledon – so could an NHS nurse join the royal family?

Jul 26 , 2024

Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at the Wimbledon Championships this month. Photo: EPA-EFE

Peter Phillips, Princess Anne’s firstborn and the late Queen Elizabeth’s ‘favourite grandson’, is father to Savannah and Isla, who have met their dad’s new girlfriend’s daughter

If there are wedding bells in the future, Harriet Sperling will be the first NHS nurse and single mum to marry into the British royal family

Peter Phillips – the son of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband Captain Mark Phillips, nephew of King Charles, and the Late Queen Elizabeth’s “favourite grandson” – has hard launched his new relationship. This comes not long after his separation from Lindsay Wallace became public.

He was reportedly spotted hand in hand with Harriet Sperling at the Badminton Horse Trials in May alongside his children, 13-year-old Savannah and 12-year-old Isla. A source who was at the event told British tabloid The Sun, “They looked completely smitten and he was grinning from ear to ear.” According to Hello!, he had introduced Sperling to Queen Camilla in May, and then to the king at Royal Ascot in June.

Indeed, the new couple appeared very affectionate at Royal Ascot, where they were seen kissing. Sperling wore an elegant pink dress by Beulah London (one of Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh’s favourite brands, per Hello!) and accessorised with a Nicola de Selincourt headdress.

In fact, it seems Phillips is bringing his new girlfriend to many high profile events. The pair was also spotted on day 10 of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, and was recently at the Out-Sourcing Inc. Royal Charity Polo Cup to cheer for Prince William. Sperling was dressed in another Beulah London dress and looked perfectly chic yet effortless in florals, per Hello!

So, what do we know about Harriet Sperling who, according to The Sun’s source, looked “very happy and relaxed in [Phillips’s] company and pleased to be shown off”?

Harriet Sperling is an NHS nurse

Harriet Sperling, 44, is a paediatric nurse specialist for the National Health Service and also a freelance writer. According to her bio on Woman Alive, she is “passionate about early brain development in babies and seeing children thrive”. If things go well and Sperling marries Peter Phillips, she will be the first NHS nurse to marry into the royal family.

She is a single mother

Like her new boyfriend, Sperling has been married and divorced; she is also a single mother.