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Meghan and Prince Harry were legally married on May 19, 2018, their spokesperson said yesterday after weeks of speculation following the Sussexes’ interview with Oprah Winfrey. They told the Daily Beast: “The couple exchanged personal vows a few days before their official / legal wedding on May 19.”
During the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s historic conversation with Oprah, broadcast on March 7 in the US, Meghan said that the Archbishop of Canterbury had already celebrated their wedding a few days before their million-dollar nuptials took place. .
While showing the American journalist rescued chickens that the Sussexes had in their garden, Meghan said: “Three days before our wedding, we were married.”
Addressing the nuptials in the Chapel of St. George as a “spectacle for the world,” he continued: “Nobody knows, but we called the Archbishop and said: ‘Look, this, this show is for the world, but we want our union between us’.
“So the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
Prince Harry added, “Just the three of us.”
This exchange of vows is believed to have taken place at Nottingham Cottage, on the grounds of Kensington Palace, where Meghan and Harry lived in 2018.
Meghan’s claim about the existence of a second wedding was immediately challenged by royal observers and experts, with many pointing out that a minimum of two witnesses is needed for a legal marriage to take place in the UK.
Also, to be valid, an Anglican marriage must take place in a church or a place that has received a special license.
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Hours after the first interview with Oprah, a source close to the Duke and Duchess already said that Meghan was describing to the American journalist a private exchange of vows that took place three days before May 19, 2018, instead of a wedding. real.
However, the Sussexes had not officially made things clear.
Her statement came after The Sun obtained a copy of her marriage certificate from the General Registrar’s Office.
This certificate clearly shows that the couple married on May 19, 2018 to two witnesses: Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, and Harry’s father, Prince Charles.
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Stephen Borton, former chief secretary of the Faculty Office, said the Duchess was “obviously confused and clearly misinformed.”
He added: “They were not married three days before in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“The Special License that I helped draft allowed them to get married at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and what happened there on May 19, 2018 and was seen by millions around the world was the official wedding recognized by the Church of England and the law.
“What I suspect they did was exchange some simple vows that perhaps they had written themselves, and that is fashionable, and they said it in front of the Archbishop, or, more likely, it was a simple rehearsal.”
Mr. Borton, who is now a consultant to the Faculty Office, added: “The wedding itself took place in St George’s Chapel under the conditions stipulated by the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which has recently been amended.
“For them to marry, a Special License was drawn up and the writing of Her Majesty, the Queen authorizing the wedding and the official venue was registered.”
The official wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan is believed to cost approximately £ 32 million.
The church service, flowers, and reception were paid for by the Royal Family.
Taxpayers covered the cost of security, which included a steel ring around Windsor and crowd management.
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