The King and Queen are understood to have accepted the invitation to the Epsom Derby before the wedding date was set. Once they received the wedding invitation, aides looked into logistics and found it was narrowly possible for them to do both.

When she prepared to marry Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, royal bride Harriet Sperling specifically requested that a touching tribute to Queen Elizabeth be included in her wedding bouquet when the two married on June 6.

She was the last surviving bridesmaid at Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey in November 1947.