Meghan Markle and Prince Harry married in May 2018, but a shocking claim the Suits star made in an interview about their marriage has resurfaced on the internet (via Express.co.uk). The couple met on a blind date in 2016 and announced their engagement the next year. Since their marriage in 2018, they have welcomed two kids and stepped back from their roles as working royals.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry got married before their scheduled wedding date
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s romance peaked in the summer of 2018 when they tied the knot in a star-studded royal wedding. However, during their appearance on the highly publicised Oprah interview, Markle claimed that the couple had exchanged vows days before their wedding.
Per The Daily Mail, she said, “Three days before our wedding, we got married. No one knows that but we called the Archbishop and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world but we want our union [to be] between us.'” She alleged that the Archbishop of Canterbury led the private ceremony at Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace. It was their home at the time.
Two weeks after these claims made headlines, the General Registrar Office revealed the couple’s marriage certificate. This official document clearly mentions May 19, 2018, as the day of their wedding. Prince Charles and Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, signed as the witnesses.
A spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex also confirmed this to The Sun. They clarified that the wedding before the lavish ceremony only involved ‘privately exchanged personal vows’. Moreover, Archbishop Justin Welby also refuted Markle’s claims in an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.
Welby said that he had only met the couple “in a private and pastoral setting” beforehand. “The legal wedding was on the Saturday. I signed the wedding certificate which is a legal document and I would have committed a serious criminal offence if I signed it knowing it was false,” he said.
