When the royal family gathers in two weeks for the much-anticipated wedding of the late Queen Elizabeth’s eldest grandson Peter Phillips to Harriet Sperling there will be one notable exception – his uncle.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince who was spectacularly stripped of his HRH and princely titles by this brother, King Charles, last year over his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is unlikely to not be among the guests to watch Phillips walk down the aisle for the second time.
While Andrew, who is the younger brother of Phillips’ mother, Princess Anne, was front and centre when he wed Autumn Kelly back in 2008, the Daily Mail is reporting he is “unlikely” to be on the guest list this time round.
Prince Andrew is unlikely to be on the guest list for his nephew’s wedding next month. (Getty)
The couple is due to marry on June 6 in a private ceremony at All Saints Church in the Cotswolds township of Cirencester.
The church was chosen due to its close proximity to Gatcombe Park, the estate where his mother Anne, the Princess Royal has lived for 50 years, and where Phillips and Sperling also currently live.
But while the Daily Mail is reporting almost the entire royal family at their big day, Mountbatten-Windsor is reportedly not invited as the monarchy continues to distance itself from the fallout surrounding his long-running association with Epstein and other matters, such as his spectacular arrest in February on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
No charges have yet been laid, and he has always denied any wrongdoing.
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Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling will marry next month. (i5 Media)
Among the guests who are likely to attend are Peter’s mother, the Princess Royal and her husband, Sir Tim Lawrence, Phillips’ uncles King Charles and Queen Camilla, and Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his wife Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh.
His sister and brother-in-law Zara and Mike Tindall will be doubt be there, as will as Prince William, the Prince of Wales, and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, who share a tight bond with William’s cousin.
It remains to be seen if Andrew’s daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, will be invited, or if they are, whether they will turn up.
Princess Beatrice has a country home in the Cotswolds with her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, with whom she shares daughters Sienna and Athena.
They have been tainted by their parents’ link with Epstein.
A trove of documents released by the US Department of Justice earlier this year included correspondence between their mother, Sarah Ferguson, and Epstein.
The gushing emails showed Ferguson, then known as the Duchess of York, continued to have a close relationship with the sex offender years after she said she severed ties with him and often relied on her “supreme friend” for loans to fund her lifestyle.
Princesses Eugenie, left, and Beatrice, right, have been tainted by their mother’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. (PA Images via Getty Images)
One email, dated July 2009, came just five days after he was released from prison and saw Ferguson arranging for herself and her daughters to have lunch with him.
It is not known if the lunch took place.
An email from March 2010, saw Ferguson tell Epstein that Princess Eugenie was away on a “shagging weekend”.
In another email from July 2010, Epstein asked Ferguson if her daughters would be available to greet his goddaughter while she was in London, and asked the princesses to arrange tours of Buckingham Palace.
Their father also featured prominently, including several photos of him kneeling above a woman, who was lying on the ground.
He also sent a Christmas card, which featured a photo of his daughters, to Epstein long after he claimed to have cut off contact with the sex offender.
Inclusion in the Epstein files does not indicate any wrongdoing.
Both princesses had been lying low this year, missing key royal events such as the annual Easter Sunday pilgrimage to Mass.
Eugenie, who recently turned up at a society wedding in Italy before announcing she was pregnant with her third child, also has her own problems.
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Princess Eugenie was spotted in the background of a society wedding in Pamermo, Italy, in April 2026. (Instagram/@jazzydelisser)
She announced earlier this year she was stepping down as patron from an anti-slavery charity she has been involved with for seven years.
According to the BBC, Eugenie’s departure from Anti-Slavery International came after the Charity Commission confirmed it was “assessing concerns” about a separate charity, The Anti-Slavery Collective, which the princess co-founded in 2017.
Then just this week, the BBC reported The Charity Commission had opened another case into the Anti-Slavery Collective over concerns relating to spending.
On Wednesday, a Charity Commission spokesperson told BBC News: “We have opened a regulatory compliance case into Anti-Slavery Collective to continue assessing concerns raised with us about charitable spending”.
The BBC said it was understood the move did not represent a statutory inquiry, and the body had not made any findings or drawn any conclusions, nor was there a timeframe on how long inquiries will take.
Royal correspondent Richard Palmer told the Daily Mirror back in March there had long been questions about how the sisters funded their lifestyles.
“There was also a time when Beatrice had something like 15 or 16 holidays in one year and she was supposedly earning about [AUD$35,000] a year,” Palmer said.
The Princesss have not attended a royal event since the annual Christmas Lunch for members of the royal family at Buckingham Palace in December 2025. (Getty)
“Where was all that money coming from? Presumably some sort of trust fund.”
It is not suggested that either princess was involved in any illegal activity.
But Palmer said he thought the time would come when they lost their titles.
“Being princesses who are non-working royals is confusing for people already because they have titles, but they don’t do anything for the monarchy, they don’t do anything for the nation,” he said.
“They’re essentially just private individuals who get privileges of being members of the royal family.
“But they’re probably going to have to say goodbye to some of those privileges, which they’ve enjoyed for a long, long time.”
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