Peter Phillips has today revealed that he and his girlfriend Harriet Sperling are engaged.
Princess Anne's eldest son, who is 19th in line to the throne, will marry the NHS paediatric nurse after a year of dating.
Peter has two daughters - Savannah, 14, and Isla, 13, from his previous 12-year marriage to Autumn Kelly. Harriet has a daughter Georgina, 13, from her first marriage to a fitness instructor.
They have not yet set a date for the wedding and informed the King and Queen as well as Prince William and his wife the Princess of Wales ahead of today's announcement.
The couple said in a statement: 'Mr Peter Phillips, the son of HRH The Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips and Ms Harriet Sperling, daughter of the late Mr Rupert Sanders and Mrs Mary Sanders of Gloucestershire, have today confirmed their official engagement.
