THE REASON WHY KATE AND MEGHAN WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR THEIR WEDDING DRESSES
The duchesses had to wait to be officially members of the royal family to enjoy their privileges.
Royal weddings are that time when real life resembles (slightly) princess tales. At least that is how the most enthusiastic have lived it recently with the weddings of Carlota Casiraghi or Princess Eugenia of York. This moment of reverie multiplied exponentially when those who passed through the altar were Kate Middleton in 2011 and Meghan Markle in May 2018.
Part of the "magic" that surrounded both links was due to the fact that Middleton and Markle would become commoners in part of the royal family in a matter of a day - as happened with Queen Letizia in 2004 - but also to the dresses they wore. their wedding day.
Of course, real life is not as beautiful as these fables in which nobody asks who will bear the costs of an event of such magnitude. If an ordinary wedding already involves an economic effort, we can imagine that if it is about two heirs of the British Crown, much higher figures are reached.
According to the Chilean portal Page 7, the British Crown is responsible for the expenses of the ceremony and the subsequent celebration, which already adds a significant amount of money. However, regarding the bride's dress, "the Crown cannot bear these expenses since they are not yet 'officially' part of the royal family, a matter that changes after the marriage. We assume then, that like her daughters-in-law, Diana of Wales also paid for her wedding dress.
Therefore, the clothes and accessories that they wore in their public appearances while they were still the brides of the princes - before going through the altar - also ran on their own account.
In the case of the impressive wedding dress that Meghan de Givenchy wore, it was herself, thanks to her salary as an actress in the hit series Suits, who paid for it. This, according to the Chilean media, was around $ 100,000, although different prices are considered in other media. In the series starring Patrick J. Adams, the Duchess of Sussex charged $ 50,000 per episode according to Fortune and remember that, to announce her engagement to Prince Harry, Meghan wore a $ 56,000 Ralph and Russo design.
Kate, for her part, despite the fact that her incredible Alexander McQueen gown was four times the cost of Meghan's (if the Page 7 data is correct) - it cost about $ 400,000 - it was not who paid for it, but her parents. . Although she did not enjoy a high salary like that of her sister-in-law, Middleton's family is known to have made "a great fortune thanks to her father's businesses."
Now that both hold the title of Duchesses, they enjoy the privileges that belong to the royal family and the clothes they wear in public are part of the Duchy of Cornwall's budget. However, they are prohibited from accepting gifts from brands.
