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Who’s who in the Royal Box at Wimbledon on Day Ten? It’s a regal turnout as Queen Camilla is joined by Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling – along with Hollywood VIPs Elle Fanning and Jason Isaacs

In the largest group of royals at Wimbledon so far, Queen Camilla was joined by Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling for the couple’s first appearance at The Championships since tying the knot last month.

Her Majesty’s plus one today was her sister Annabel Elliot, with Camilla’s private secretary of more than a decade, Sophie Densham, also in the Royal Box today.

Beloved TV star David Suchet – best known for his portrayal of Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot – also joined with his partner Sheila.

Elsewhere, enjoying the most coveted seats at SW19 were Hollywood stars Elle Fanning, Jason Isaacs and Dominic West.

Survival enthusiast Bear Grylls was in attendance, along with his wife Shara, and political VIPs including Alastair Campbell and Tristram Hunt were also in the mix.

Read on to learn who’s who in the Royal Box on the tenth day at the Championships…

1. Queen Camilla 2. Annabel Elliot 3. Sophie Densham 4 and 5. Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling 6. Bear Grylls 7. Elle Fanning 8. Jason Isaacs 9. Sir David Suchet 10. Nicola Walker 11. Dominic West 12. Richard Krajicek 13. Tristram Hunt 14. Armando Iannucci 15. Alastair Campbell 16. Deborah Jevans 17. Brian Vahaly 18. Mark Precious 19. Roy Colabawalla 20. Chris Harrop 21. Baroness Casey 22. Gubby Ayida 23. Sir William Browder 24. Sir Geoffrey Cass 25. Jon Davies 26. Melanie-Antoinette de Massy 27. James Fairclough 28. Dame Katherine Grainger 29. Lewis Moody 30. Emily Mortimer 31. Simon Patterson 32. Joseph Root

1. Queen Camilla 

Queen Camilla cut an elegant figure in a blue midi dress, which she also wore to Royal Ascot last month, as she arrived for the quarter-final matches. 

Her Majesty, 78, was given a tour of the All England Club with Chair Debbie Jevans, before taking her seat in the Royal Box overlooking Centre Court. 

Wednesday marks Camilla’s first appearance at The Championships this season, after the Queen was praised as a ‘real character’ during a visit to Plumpton, East Sussex yesterday. 

The 78-year-old visited The Half Moon Pub, which serves British classics and also doubles as a campsite, in the village where she grew up.

Camilla was raised at Plumpton’s The Laines, the seven-bedroom property she once described as ‘perfect in every way’.

‘Lovely to have Queen Camilla for lunch today,’ the Facebook post read, before a later comment added, ‘A real character and lovely to welcome her. Such a lovely lady!’

King Charles’s wife, dressed in a bottle green floral dress, stood smiling in the pub alongside two staff members in the image.

2. Annabel Elliot

Annabel Elliot, 77, is Queen Camilla’s younger sister and the mother of former Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party Ben Elliot.

An interior designer and antiques dealer, Annabel lives in Dorset, where her business Annabel Elliot Interior Design, is based.

As attendant to the Queen, Annabel had a highly visible role in the Coronation of King Charles in 2023.

3. Sophie Densham 

The Queen’s right-hand woman, Sophie Densham, accompanied Camilla and Annabel today. 

Sophie has served as Camilla’s private secretary for over a decade and is considered a key player in the King and Queen’s tight-knit group of aides. 

4 and 5. Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling 

Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling only had eyes for each other as they arrived at the All England Club in west London after exchanging vows in an intimate ceremony in the Cotswolds last month. 

Princess Anne’s son, 48, was dapper in a light grey blazer and navy trousers, while his NHS nurse wife Harriet, 45, stunned in a £1,330 checked lime and blue ensemble from Emilia Wickstead.

It’s been a busy social calendar for the couple – who tied the knot in June – as they also joined the King and Queen for Royal Ascot last month.

6. Bear Grylls 

British adventurer Bear Grylls swapped treacherous and remote conditions for the comfort of the Royal Box today.

Grylls, 52, is an Eton College alumnus – the same school attended by Prince William and Prince Harry. However, being eight years older than William, Bear did not share classes with either of the princes.

Despite this, Grylls is said to be close friends with the Prince of Wales and has collaborated with him and the Duke of Sussex on various wildlife conservation projects throughout the years.

While the TV star looked dapper in a navy suit, Shara opted for a lovely, floaty black dress. 

7. Elle Fanning

Hollywood star Elle Fanning, 28, stood out from the crowd in a colourful shirt dress which she paired with black and white accessories.

Elle was joined by her music executive boyfriend of three years, Gus Wenner, who dressed up in a suit and tie for the occasion.

8. Jason Isaacs 

Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs, 56, looked decidedly more formal as he returned to the All England Club after last week’s appearance. 

Jason, who played Lucius Malfoy, attended day one of The Championships wearing a denim-style blazer with matching trousers and a white shirt. 

However, the British actor donned a navy suit, which was much more fitting for the Royal Box, today.  

9. Sir David Suchet 

Actor David Suchet, 80, is most famous for playing Hercule Poirot in ITV’s long-running series of whodunnits featuring Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth, a role he championed for 25 years (1989-2013).

David was approached to play Poirot in the late Eighties, by the trustees of Agatha Christie’s estate – her daughter Rosalind and son-in-law Anthony Hicks.

They had watched him as Sigmund Freud in a TV mini-series, as the blackmailing gardener Blott in a Tom Sharpe comedy, and in the Poirot movie Thirteen At Dinner – playing Inspector Japp, opposite Peter Ustinov’s Poirot.

Acclaimed actor David is an avid tennis fan and even played at Wimbledon in the junior tournament, where he got through to the second round as a teenager.

10. Nicola Walker 

Nicola Walker was also on today’s list of VIPs, as the Unforgotten star was spotted in the second row of the Royal Box. 

Since making her screen debut in Richard Curtis’s Four Weddings and a Funeral, Nicola has thrilled TV audiences with roles in top BBC and ITV dramas, with her first big gig in spy drama Spooks.

After the roaring success of the suave spy drama, which ran for a total of 10 seasons on BBC One, Nicola was cast in Last Tango in Halifax, playing the role of sheep farmer Gillian.

The Daily Telegraph hailed Nicola’s role in Sally Wainwright’s comedy/drama as a ‘game-changer’ in her career.

In 2015 she landed herself the lead role in gritty ITV drama Unforgotten as DCI Cassie Stuart. 

While Nicola has made a name for herself playing spies and cops, she said she wouldn’t rule out taking on more similar roles in future, as long as the script was right.

She said: ‘I’d play another detective. But I can’t believe I’d ever find one I loved as much as Cassie.’

She was most recently seen in Alice and Steve alongside Jemaine Clement. 

11. Dominic West 

Dominic West was all smiles as he arrived for a day of tennis action, with the actor opting for a cream-coloured, double-breasted blazer and matching trousers. 

The Wire actor, 56, married landscape designer Catherine in 2010, and they have four children together; Dora, 19, Senan, 17, Francis, 14, and Christabel, nine.

The couple now split their time between London and her family’s ancestral home, Glin Castle in County Limerick, Ireland, which has been in the FitzGerald family for more than 700 years.

12. Richard Krajicek 

Dutch former professional tennis player, Richard Krajicek, who won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon in 1996, was also in attendance today. 

13. Tristram Hunt 

Former Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Tristram Hunt, 50, served as Shadow Secretary of State for Education between from 2013 to 2015.

Hunt has been director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017 and is a senior lecturer in History at Queen Mary University of London.

He is also a broadcast journalist who appears regularly on the BBC.

Hunt attended Wimbledon with his wife Juliet Thornback – the couple share one son and two daughters.

14. Armando Iannucci

Scottish satirist Armando Iannucci is best known for creating whip-smart political comedies such as The Thick of It and Veep. 

The Glasgow-born writer and director, 62, was made CBE in the King’s Birthday honours in 2024 for his service to film and TV. 

The inclusion of the honours for Iannucci may come as a pleasant surprise for fans of his popular TV show.

The writer and satirist was given an OBE in 2012 – the year The Thick Of It aired its last episode.

He then created a spin-off film called In the Loop, diverting his attention to the US.

15. Alastair Campbell

Best known as Tony Blair’s former right-hand man and the Labour Party’s maverick spin doctor, tennis fan Alastair Campbell was back at SW19 and in the Royal Box once more on Wednesday. 

Attending with daughter Grace Campbell, whom he shares with long-term partner Fiona Millar, the Government man-turned-author wore a cobalt blue suit with a pair of smart navy trainers for his day watching the Wimbledon quarter-finals. 

16. Deborah Jevans 

As Chair of the AELTC, Deborah Jevans was sat front and centre of the Royal Box.

The British former tennis player Ms Jevans CBE has been at the hallowed location numerous times, as a former junior Wimbledon champion.

She also played ten times in the women’s singles (between 1979 and 1983). Her best result was reaching the fourth round, when she lost to fifth-seeded Virginia Wade.

Ms Jevans also played in the doubles event, reaching the quarter finals of the mixed doubles event in 1978, playing with her future husband and Wimbledon referee Andrew Jarrett.

She became the first chairwoman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club Board in 2023, succeeding Ian Hewitt.

In 2013, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours due to her services to Sport and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, when she served as director of sports for the event.

17. Brian Vahaly 

Brian Vahaly is the former world 57 in tennis, reaching his career high in March 2003.

The sporting star, 44, began playing tennis at just the age of two with his parents. Clearly the practice paid off, and he claimed wins against the likes of Juan Carlos Ferrero, Michael Chang and Fernando Gonzalez.

In 2017, he came out as gay, a decade after he was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury. He had been dating a woman for two years while on the ATP tour.

The following year, he was described as a ‘gay tennis trailblazer’ by The Telegraph, due to very few players in the sport being openly out.

Vahaly is happily married to his husband Bill, and the two are raising twin boys, Parker and Bennett.

He told The Telegraph previously: ‘My exposure to the gay community had always been very limited and what I knew of it I didn’t connect to. Until I retired I just didn’t allow myself to explore my sexuality.

‘No one would have known what to do with me. It could have potentially impacted sponsorships.’

He added: ‘I heard homophobic comments all the time in the locker room – to my face, behind my back. That was just a part of the culture.’

18. Mark Precious 

Another athlete sitting in one of the sought-after spots in the Royal Box today was Mark Precious, a former student at University College in Oxford.

The former field hockey player won the bronze medal with the British team at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

19. Roy Colabawalla 

Roy Colabawalla is the Corporate Partner at Sydney Mitchell LLP and president of the Lawn Tennis Association.

The Sydney Mitchell partner was appointed youngest president in Lawn Tennis Association history earlier this year.

20. Chris Harrop 

Previously Bain & Company adviser partner and company veteran, Chris Harrop is a self-proclaimed ‘tennis nut’; who took on the role as chair of Tennis Australia at the end of last year, succeeding Jayne Hrdlicka.

Within his role, he seeks to help build participation and support for tennis across Australia.

21. Baroness Louise Casey of Blackstock 

Baroness Louise Casey was among the dignitaries at Wimbledon today. 

She led the independent review of the Metropolitan Police in the wake of Sarah Everard’s kidnapping, rape, and murder. 

The damning review found that the ‘institutionally racist, sexist, and homophobic’ force was ‘failing women and children’ in March 2023. 

The crossbench peer also led an investigation into Rotherham Council in 2015 after a separate report found more than 1,400 children were sexually exploited by gangs of mainly Asian males in the town between 1997 and 2013.

Earlier this year, she admitted there is still a ‘sense of denial’ over the ethnicity and religion of perpetrators after the issue ‘hit national headlines’ again. 

22. Gubby Ayida

The chief executive of Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Gubby Ayida has been pictured with the Princess of Wales on several occasions. 

The pair were seen together when Catherine opened the day surgery unit at the hospital near Westminster in December 2023, before Ms Ayida welcomed the future Queen back to the facility earlier this week. 

Catherine has been a patron of the children’s hospital, which works with some of the capital’s sickest youngsters, since 2018. 

Speaking of Catherine’s visit, Ms Ayida later said: ‘She’s brilliant with the children, she always lights up the place for the children when they come in.

‘And some of them are quite sick, because we are a specialist hospital, so a day like this is really very special to them.’

23. Sir William Browder

American-born British financier and political activist Sir William ‘Bill’ Browder was also a guest in the most prestigious seats at the All England Club on Day 10.

Sir William was once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia and is currently head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. He recently published Red Notice, A True Story Of Corruption, Murder And How I Became Putin’s No 1 Enemy. 

24. Sir Geoffrey Cass 

Former tennis professional Geoffrey Cass is in familiar territory on Centre Court. The now 93-year-old starred in the opening match of the 1954 Championships on what is perhaps the world’s most famous showcourt. 

Sir Geoffrey was also a member of the Wimbledon Championships Management Committee for 12 years and served as LTA President in 1992. 

25. Jon Davies 

Managing Director of Levy UK, one of the UK’s biggest sporting and hospitality businesses, Jon Davies combined his company’s two major interests by taking his place in the Royal Box this afternoon. 

Levy UK is one of the Championships’ official partners in 2026. 

26. Melanie-Antoinette de Massy 

A trusted confidante of the Monaco Royal family, elegant Melanie-Antoinette Costello de Massy heads up another classic sporting institution herself – in her role as President of the Monte Carlo Country Club. 

The 41-year-old is the daughter of Prince Albert’s cousin Elizabeth and granddaughter of the late Princess Antoinette of Monaco. 

27. James Fairclough  

James Fairclough was appointed as Chair of BBC Children in Need in 2025, after his work as an Angel investor, advising companies and start-ups on scaling up. He has in past worked as CEO of Financial Services and AA Cars. 

28. Dame Katherine Grainger

Olympian Dame Katherine, who won a gold medal in rowing at the 2012 London games, is now Chair of the British Olympic Association having also served as Chair of UK Sport.

The Scottish former athlete carried King Charles’ specially-made sword at a ceremony in Scotland to mark his Coronation in 2023.

29. Lewis Moody 

England rugby icon Lewis Moody enjoyed the sunshine in SW19 with his wife Annie amid the sporting legend’s battle with Motor Neurone Disease. 

The World Cup winner wore a grey jacket with beige trousers, while Annie was elegant in a white skirt and a cropped jacket.

Last month, Lewis – who starred for Leicester, England, and the Lions – received a hero’s welcome at Twickenham after completing a 500-mile charity cycling challenge ahead of the PREM Rugby final.

The Lewis Moody XV Challenge, which began in Newcastle on 14 June, visited all five of his former clubs, including Leicester Tigers and Bath, before reaching the home of England rugby on Saturday.

MND – which he was diagnosed with in September – is a rare neurological condition affecting the brain and spinal cord, and can impact a person’s ability to talk, walk and breathe. 

30. Emily Mortimer 

Actress Emily Mortimer, 54, looked to be in high spirits as she sat in the Royal Box this afternoon.

The star, known for being on HBO’s The Newsroom as well as the 2021 series The Pursuit of Love, has been married to American actor Alessandro Nivola since 2003. He joined her at Wimbledon today.

That same year, she also won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing.

31. Simon Patterson 

Simon Patterson is Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Royal Foundation, which is known for its philanthropic and charitable work for the Prince and Princess of Wales – and has been in the role since last year 

32. Joseph Root 

Joseph Root, MBE is a British cricketer who captained the England Test cricket team from 2017 until 2022 when he stepped down.

The 34-year-old batter is from Sheffield and has had an outstanding career to date which has seen him play 155 test matches scoring a total of 13,115 runs.

He was also shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2024.

Joseph is accompanied in the royal box by his wife, Carrie Cotterell who he wed in 2018 in his home town after proposing to her two years prior.

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