Canadian Autumn Kelly is officially part of the Royal Family after she married Peter Phillips, the eldest grandson of Queen Elizabeth, at Windsor Castle on Saturday afternoon.

She emerged from the castle's 15th-century St. George's Chapel as Phillips' wife, holding a bouquet of white flowers as she and her husband got into a tartan-lined carriage drawn by two Windsor greys.

Earlier, Kelly was led into the chapel by her father, Brian Kelly, her flowing-white dress -- believed to be a $4,000 Sassi Holford -- was held up by bridesmaids, including Peter's sister Zara Phillips.

The private wedding took place in front of about 300 guests, including the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince Charles.

Prince William did not attend the wedding -- he's attending the wedding of a childhood friend in Kenya -- but his on-again, off-again girlfriend Kate Middleton was expected to be on hand in his place.

Royal watchers are taking this as a sign that Middleton might be having her own royal wedding in the near future.

Prince Harry attended the wedding with his girlfriend of four years, Chelsy Davy, who is expected to be formally presented to the Queen for the first time.

Phillips is 11th in line to the throne, and has tended to stay out of the spotlight of Britain's tabloid press. He works for the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Kelly comes from a middle-class family in the Montreal suburb of Pointe Claire, which has been the source of much fodder for British tabloids.

The couple, both 30, met when they were each working at the Montreal Grand Prix in 2003. They announced their engagement last year.

Kelly renounced her Roman Catholic faith and joined the Church of England in order to marry Phillips. A royal who marries a Catholic cannot inherit the throne, under centuries-old British law.

Phillips, who does not have a royal title, did not initially tell Kelly of his royal heritage. It was not until she was watching a program on Prince William that she realized who she was dating.

Recently, the couple raised some eyebrows in some circles after they sold their wedding story to the celebrity magazine Hello! for a price believed to be about $1 million.

With files from The Associated Press