Royal wedding: how did actress Meghan Markle and Prince Harry meet?
Although it seems hard to believe, it all happened on a blind date.
Prince Harry, 33, and his fiancee, the American Meghan Markle, 36, who are getting married this Saturday, May 19, in the United Kingdom, met by a mutual friend.
And it was all in a planned meeting in 2016, according to the couple in an interview with the BBC in November 2017 when they announced their engagement.
Markle said she "didn't know much" about Prince Harry, sixth in line to the British throne, before meeting him.
The prince also said that he did not know Markle before that first meeting in London as he had never seen the television series Suits in which Meghan played lawyer Rachel Zane.
"The stars aligned"
From that moment everything happened quite quickly.
Two dates later, they went camping together in Botswana in southern Africa.
"We camped together under the stars, it was absolutely fantastic," said Harry.
The Prince and Meghan Markle announced their engagement on November 28, 2017, recounting that he proposed to her earlier that month during a "typical and typical evening for us" at his home in Kensington Palace while the couple prepared. grilled chicken.
"One of the first things we started talking about when we met was the different things we wanted to do in the world and how passionate we were to see change," added Meghan.
In another part of the interview, Prince Harry said that together with Meghan they want "to be able to carry out the right commitments, our work and try to inspire others, the younger generation so that they can see the world in the right sense."
"The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly fast was a confirmation for me that the stars were aligned, everything was perfect," he said.
What is there to know about the wedding?
- When: May 19 at noon (local time). To give an idea of schedules: on the east coast of the United States it will be at 7 in the morning and the west at 4. In Mexico City, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, Chile and Argentina, at 6 in the morning. In Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras, at 5.
- Where: St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, 34 km west of London.
- Guests: Around 1,200 members of the public, many of them noted for their charity work, were invited to view the ceremony in the gardens of Windsor Castle. Another 600 people are invited to a private lunch. In the evening, the newlyweds will have a party with 200 of their closest friends.
Prince William will be the best man at the wedding, in retribution for Prince Harry taking on that role during his brother's wedding in 2011. "Revenge is sweet," William said.
Meghan's parents, Thomas Markle and Doria Radlan, are expected to attend their daughter's wedding, including having his father walk him down the aisle.
Cake: It will be a classic white wedding cake made by American chef Claire Ptak. She will make a lemon elderflower cake "that will incorporate the intense flavors of spring." It will be covered in buttercream and decorated with fresh flowers, as Kensington Palace described.
