The photos from Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s weekend wedding are just another reminder that British women from a certain class have zero fashion sense. They actually pride themselves on looking frumpy, dowdy and older than their years. It’s a class indicator for them – the frumpier they look, the posher they are. People had good reason to examine the photos of the wedding guests because, as it turned out, one of the Princess of Wales’ old boyfriends was there. Back in her college days, Kate dated Rupert Finch for a time, and Finch turned up at Peter’s wedding with his posh wife Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs. Some people said he resembles Roger Federer and I can really see it! Finch also has a full head of hair.
The Princess of Wales’s ex-boyfriend was among the glamorous guests at Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling’s nuptials in the Cotswolds on Saturday.
Rupert Finch reportedly dated Kate for just under a year in 2001 when the pair were students at the University of St Andrews – before she won the heart of Prince William. Their relationship was even depicted in season six of The Crown, with a floppy-haired Rupert portrayed by actor Oli Green.
At the time of their romance, Rupert was in his fourth year of studying and following St Andrews, he went on to graduate from the College of Law in Guildford.
The exes have remained on friendly terms, it seems, as Rupert was invited to William and Kate’s royal wedding at Westminster Abbey in London in April 2011.
Two years later, Rupert married the daughter of the 4th Marquess of Reading, Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs. Their nuptials in Cirencester in June 2013 were attended by Princess Eugenie and Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend, Cressida Bonas.
Natasha is no stranger to royal circles, as she and Lavinia Brennan are the founders of ethical fashion brand Beulah London. Their dresses have been coveted by blushing bride Harriet Sperling, as well as the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh and Princess Beatrice.
I actually had no idea about the connection to Beulah London. Kate wears Beulah London all the time, and I would imagine that’s on purpose, to support… her ex-boyfriend’s posh, aristocrat wife. Interesting. I mean, Prince William’s social circles are littered with ex-girlfriends and rumored (shall we say) “connections.” So it’s interesting that one of Kate’s exes is in these circles too. Kate could have had a man with good hair! Kate could have married someone who looks like Roger Federer!
Photos courtesy of Getty Images, Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales and Prince William, Prince of Wales arrive for the Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints Church on June 06, 2026 in Kemble, England. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, will marry NHS Nurse and writer Harriet Sperling during a ceremony at All Saints’ Church in Kemble today.,Image: 1108326121, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Jules Annan/Avalon
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales arrive for the Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints Church on June 06, 2026 in Kemble, England. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, will marry NHS Nurse and writer Harriet Sperling during a ceremony at All Saints’ Church in Kemble today.,Image: 1108326143, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Jules Annan/Avalon
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales and Prince William, Prince of Wales arrive for the Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints Church on June 06, 2026 in Kemble, England. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, will marry NHS Nurse and writer Harriet Sperling during a ceremony at All Saints’ Church in Kemble today.,Image: 1108332636, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Jules Annan/Avalon
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- Catherine, Princess of Wales and Prince William, Prince of Wales arrive for the Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints Church on June 06, 2026 in Kemble, England. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, will marry NHS Nurse and writer Harriet Sperling during a ceremony at All Saints’ Church in Kemble today.,Image: 1108332639, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Jules Annan/Avalon
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- Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints’ Church in Kemble, England Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Kemble, United Kingdom When: 06 Jun 2026 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints’ Church in Kemble, England Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Kemble, United Kingdom When: 06 Jun 2026 Credit: Cover Images
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- Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints’ Church in Kemble, England Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: Kemble, United Kingdom When: 06 Jun 2026 Credit: Cover Images
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- Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs arrives for the Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints’ Church on June 06, 2026 in Kemble, England. Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, will marry NHS Nurse and writer Harriet Sperling during a ceremony at All Saints’ Church in Kembl, Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs and Rupert Finch arrive for the Royal wedding of Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling at All Saints’ Church on June 06, will marry NHS Nurse and writer Harriet Sperling during a ceremony at All Saints’ Church in Kemble today.,Image: 1108401485, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Jules Annan/Avalon
Frumpyness on steroids!
No joke! The posh set is truly weird. Like, I get the hand me down furniture and never discussing money but out-frumping each other at highly photographed events?
No joy, no fun, no fashion. What a soulless, creepy bunch. And as I have said before, no one does toddler old-lady wear as well as these people.
I like the prints on the dresses I can see, and I even like the green and white striped blazer someone is wearing over a hot fuchsia dress. Just the silhouettes/cuts of the dresses are confounding to me, they’re what makes it read frumpy. I hate tea length dresses, and high necklines make me feel like I’m being strangled just looking at them. Just a lot of really weirdly tight dresses.
Why do so many women at these things look so frumpy? She may be posh be she and her friend look like doilies and cupcakes.
And does Kate *always* wear head to toe just-almost-white to weddings? Pale beige, palest of yellows, …
Better than the barely cream that she wore to Meghan’s wedding. Hard to believe it wasn’t white.
Someone on here once described it as “gaslighter white” and I will forever call it that lol. Primrose yellow my foot.
OMG the shoes are awful but those hats are DREADFUL. I wouldn’t go out of my house with something like that on my head.
Why do women at these things always look so frumpy? She may be posh, but she and her friend look like cupcakes and doilies.
And why does Kate always go head to toe just-about-white – pale beige, pale yellows…
Isabelle de la Bruyere (girlfriend of David Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon) looked rather good in what appears to be silk dress and made the pale beige color work.
https://www.tatler.com/article/david-armstrong-jones-girlfriend
Yes l thought lsabelle looked beautiful, her hat was gorgeous
Ooooh, she’s gorgeous. Tall and elegant, if Kate-thin. And her outfit is how to do the blergh color dress and the matching stiff hat correctly for a June wedding guest: Hair up. Hat gives “summer straw boater” without making you look like you’re twelve years old, as Kate’s did. The satin – as Isabelle can pull it off with her figure – looked gorgeous and fit her perfectly and was appropriate to the time of year, unlike Kate who was wearing something like faux Chanel boucle knit (I’m still baffled that Roland Mouret of all people signed his name to that dress because it’s nothing like the style he’s known for). Delicate stilettos and no hose because again, June. Perfection. Is she French?
Someone needs to point out the unstyled just rolled out of bed and did a middle part because it’s 1995 hairdo. What this a theme wedding?
Is it a posh thing to invite all your exes to your wedding?
if my exes looked like that, I’d invite them to everything!
Sounds fair.
It must be because since Charles and Diana there’s always been an extra-girlfriend at these weddings. This is the first ex-boyfriend I can recall hearing about though. I’ve always found it weird.
Rupert has been reported on for years and years. But if you’ve not been following royal gossip that closely you may not have known.
She has more too. Henry Ropner and Willem Marx are the most commonly reported on. There could be other but those three have always come up.
Kate has dozens of exes, all in William’s friend group. She slept her way through them to get to Club H. During their repeated breakups she’d sleep with a few of them again to play on jealousy.
That top photo with Kate looking at Willliam as she exits the vehicle is another one of those split second moments that change entirely if you see the video.
Kate knew to look in his direction with a smile, but in the video, as she turns her head back to the front, she pulls a Melania and the smile drops so quickly.
Also – there is one woman who was dressed elegantly – I don’t know who she was, but she was walking next to Linley and was probably around his age. She was not frumpy or doing whatever Kate was trying to do.
I think she was the only woman who read as sophisticated and suitable for the wedding.
White button down top, black skirt, and black saucer hat? His sister, Lady Sarah Chatto.
Just saw post above. Could be Snowdon’s new girlfriend?
Gotta say, this Rupert dude is a big upgrade on William, at least in terms of his looks.
No joke. What a hottie.
I’m thinking she has buyers remorse.
I think NIC919 that was Linley’s french girlfriend Isabelle de la Bruyere
She really needs about 9-12” chopped off that hair. Or wig. Whatever. It’s not a good look.
Rupert, you dodged a bullet.
What in the Warren Jeffs hell are these women wearing?!
Why is the woman In the blue dress with the straggly hair and hat with a bow carrying a plastic bag?
The woman next to her, is that a hat, or did somebody just come along and stick a blue plate on her upper face?
Maybe there is some kind of major private joke going on when it comes to dressing at aristocratic weddings
From what I can tell, poorly-fitted bras and a lack of foundation garments are also major parts of the female aristo aesthetic.
😄😝😆😆
Now you know why she was smiling!! I agree, Rupert dodged a bunny-boiling bullet. Yowza & egads.
I just love this. What kind of an idiot throws this guy away for William? A very keen idiot, I suppose. He looks fantastic.
And frumpy or not, his wife is a beautiful woman with real curves and real hair and a real smile. Stuff you never see on Waity. The hat’s bad, but most of the hats are bad at this type of event.
A good bra would instantly improve some of these outfits. Sad boobs don’t help the looks at all.
Didn’t Beulah go into administration, like so many of Kate’s other “favourite” brands?
The papers used to frequently refer to Kate’s ex Rupert Finch, but I can’t think how long it has been since they mentioned that he was married to Natasha Rufus Isaacs.
And yes, when you look at the women who write for the tabloids and opine on morning and midday chat programmes about the royals (especially M) and the horrendous “fashion” they and their “betters” wear, you begin to understand the repeated references to Kate’s atrocious styling as “stunning”, “glamorous” and yes… “fashionable”. 😀
The “full head of hair” reference made me cackle. Even without the hair, that is a man who is aging well. He looks like a lawyer too, so I guess his appearance is well suited to his profession.
It really breaks my brain that these aristo women view class as being poorly dressed, look 10 years older than you are, being frumpy, not styling themselves appropriately, and overall not caring how they present themselves in public.
It’s accepted that you show up to society events looking like you rolled out of bed.
This is a wedding. You will be photographed. If I got married and my guests showed up looking like these women, I would feel deep insult that they didn’t think my wedding was important enough to dress properly.
And to think that these women are appearing in photos that are in the media. I would be pissed.
It also frames Meghan in a whole new light. Harry said when he first saw Meghan she looked so chic. It explains why so many of those women looked down on her style as too Hollywood and too glamorous and just “too much”. Meghan’s style isn’t too much anything. It is chic, modern, beautiful and stylish.
You can tell with such clarity how Meghan’s modern style influenced ALL the Royal women. They all upped their style game when Meghan came along bc she blew them out of the water by just being herself but with a royal flare.
Zara, Kate and Beatrice immediately spring to mind the Royal women who used to dress appallingly and really upped their game after Meghan.
These kinds of photos always make me think British women have atrocious fashion sense, but then I see a photo of non-aristocratic British women wearing perfectly chic fashion and I do a double take. These aristocratic women are representing British fashion horribly. Yet another reason to bring it all down!
They all look like they bought their outfits off the racks at Marks & Spencer, before picking up lunch in the store’s prepared food section.
Do they not own mirrors?
The ex is quite yummy! No wonder Kate was smiling so wildly – – she seems like the type that would be overly familiar and oddly possessive of an ex in social settings