Based in Shropshire and London. AUTUMN PHILLIPS . So it’s likely he was recommended to Zara Phillips when she was looking for her perfect wedding dress in 2011, which was an ivory silk gown with corseted waist and a full skirt. In hindsight Peter’s appearance at church at Sandringham in mid-January solo (he was reportedly staying at the Queen’s Norfolk summer home and was celebrating his birthday with a shooting weekend for chums) might have been a sign.Only weeks after meeting, she flew to England to see her British beau before later making the move permanent.Theirs was a more conventional royal union, with Serena being the daughter of the 12th Earl of Harrington Viscount Petersham who is reported to be worth around $500 million.Like Peter, David has long worked, having set up his own furniture company, Linley, in 1982. That savvy thinking remains as relevant in 2020 as it was in the 1850s.Peter and Autumn Phillips’ marriage started with a tinge of controversy.The couple played an unwitting role in one of the biggest royal controversies (prior to recent events) when they lent Prince William and Kate their French chateau for a holiday. Their closeness to cousins Prince William and Prince Harry is also evident, with the Phillips and the Cambridges regularly photographed together at events such as the polo and horse shows.While both couples have stressed the amicable nature of their separations, the end of these two marriages will affect the Queen.The Queen was reportedly blindsided by her grandson’s divorce – but one act on the couple’s wedding day set royal tongues wagging.But this development could not have come at a worse time for the royal family’s brand, after several bruising months during which the Windsors managed to keep losing front-facing members with startling regularity. “I was honoured and I still am,” said Stella, who launched her fashion line in 2001, and whose halterneck wedding dress design for the Duchess of Sussex became so popular she released limited edition replicas of the gown priced at £3,500 for her Made With Love capsule collection.Princess Eugenie gave American fashion designer Zac Posen the honour of designing her stunning blush pink evening wedding dress. Search online and you can find shot after shot of the duo laughing and kissing, their chemistry apparent.It is enough to make even the most sanguine of sovereigns wonder if the Palace might need cleansing with sage or if it’s time to bring someone in to fix the feng shui.In the years since then, Peter and Autumn, along with their daughters, have been a regular, beaming sight at high profile events in the royal calendar such as Trooping the Colour and Ascot.
Autumn's wedding dress, consisting of a fitted bodice made of hand-beaded lace, a silk duchesse skirt and beaded French lace shrug, was created by British designer Sassi Holford. In January cringe-worthy ads starring Peter plugging British milk for the Chinese market emerged and then just weeks later the end of his 12 year marriage was announced.In 2008, they tied the knot at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and then celebrated at Frogmore House (a combination which a decade on would be repeated by Harry and Meghan),Cringe-worthy milk ads aside, it had looked like the couple were a true royal success story, having built a seemingly happy life together, living in a house on the 600-acre Aston Farm, next door to his mother’s Gatcombe Park estate.