Harriet Sperling Wears Dubarry at Badminton Horse Trials, Hello

Harriet Sperling wore hello-worthy royal-adjacent labels at Badminton Horse Trials on Saturday, joining Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall for a family outing that put her front and center before her 6 June wedding. The former NHS nurse chose Dubarry, Anya Hindmarch, Me + Em, Finlay The Westbourne sunglasses and a Wiggy Kit blouse for the appearance.

Dubarry, Anya Hindmarch, Me + Em

Sperling’s Dubarry wax jacket placed her in the same brand orbit as Princess Anne, who has worn Dubarry knee-high boots to the ISDS International Sheep Dog Trials in 2024 and to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cleveland Way National Trail in Yorkshire in 2020. The Princess of Wales has also worn Dubarry, along with Anya Hindmarch bags at Wimbledon and a gala banquet in honour of the US President, and a sherbert pink silk shirt dress from Me + Em at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2023.

That brand mix turned a day at the Badminton Horse Trials into a quiet family statement. Sperling did not wear one label associated with royal wardrobes; she wore four, then added Finlay The Westbourne sunglasses and a Wiggy Kit blouse to finish the look.

Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall

On Saturday, she joined Phillips and Tindall for the outing, and a source described the pair as looking “so much in love, so tactile, holding hands and leaning into each other with beaming smiles.” That is the real read on the day: not a standalone fashion sighting, but a public step into Phillips’ family circle ahead of the wedding.

Phillips’ mother, Princess Anne, and the Princess of Wales already give these labels a royal shorthand, which makes Sperling’s choices legible before she becomes part of the family on 6 June. The only real variable now is how often she uses that same style vocabulary after the wedding, because this appearance showed she already knows exactly where she is entering.