Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have admitted that they didn’t have a secret backyard wedding which they spoke about during their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey. It was just an exchange of personal vows.
A spokesperson for the couple said Monday that “the couple exchanged personal vows a few days before their official/legal wedding on May 19," reported The Daily Beast.
The confusion regarding their marriage date began when the Duchess of Sussex told Oprah that she and Harry married “in our backyard” three days before the public wedding on May 19, 2018.
Meghan said in the interview, “You know, three days before our wedding, we got married. No one knows that. The vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”
A marriage certificate document was also obtained by a UK news outlet. The certificate, which gives the witnesses as Prince Charles and Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, confirmed the couple married on May 19, 2018, at Windsor Castle.
Stephen Borton, former chief clerk at the Faculty Office, told the outlet, “I’m sorry, but Meghan is obviously confused and clearly misinformed. They did not marry three days earlier in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury."
“The Special License I helped draw up enabled them to marry at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and what happened there on 19 May 2018 and was seen by millions around the world was the official wedding as recognized by the Church of England and the law.”
The certificate listed Harry as “single” and his occupation as a “Prince of the United Kingdom” and Meghan as “divorced” and an “actor.”
In another development, Meghan’s statement in a UK tabloid about her victory in her copyright claim is temporarily on hold as the newspaper’s publisher is seeking permission to appeal, reported Evening Standard.
Meghan had sued Associated Newspapers, for publishing articles that in 2018 reproduced parts of a letter she had sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle. She claimed that they misused private information, infringed copyright and breached the Data Protection Act.
The group was ordered to print a statement on its front page and a notice on page three of the paper stating that the organisation “infringed her copyright” by publishing parts of a “personal and private” letter to Markle.
The statement is temporarily on hold as Associated Newspapers has been granted a stay until April 6 to submit to a Court of Appeal against the judgement.
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