Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did not get married three days before their official ceremony, as they stated in their interview with Oprah Winfrey, revealed their own marriage certificate.
In the interview, Meghan told Oprah that she and Harry were married “in our backyard” three days before the $ 50 million public wedding on May 19, 2018. The claim was highly contested, not least because in the UK a minimum of two witnesses are required for a legal marriage to take place. However, others argued that the focus on discrepancies and inaccuracies in the interview is a deliberate strategy by Meghan’s detractors to undermine her broader credibility and the specific claim that “concerns” about her baby’s likely skin color were expressed to Harry. .
Meghan Markle ‘Did not understand’ the rules of marriage because ‘she is American’, the archbishop’s office told the vicar
The marriage certificate was obtained by the British newspaper the Sun who paid £ 42 (about $ 58) to obtain a copy of Britain’s General Register Office.
The certificate, which gives witnesses like Prince Charles and Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, appears to confirm that the couple actually married on May 19, 2018, at Windsor Castle – and a former officer who helped draft the letter. marriage license told the newspaper Meghan is “obviously confused” about the wedding.
Stephen Borton, former chief secretary of the college’s office, told the Sun: “I’m sorry, but Meghan is obviously confused and clearly misinformed. They had not been married three days earlier in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“The special license I helped write allowed them to get married in 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 by law.
“What I suspect they did was to exchange some simple vows that they may have written themselves, which are in vogue, and they said that in front of the archbishop.”
Meghan, 39, said in her interview: “You know, three days before our wedding, we got married. Nobody knows that. The vows we make in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury. “
The certificate lists Harry as “single” and his occupation as “Prince of the United Kingdom” and Meghan as “divorced” and “actor”. His father, Thomas Markle, is described as a “lighting director” and Charles as a “Prince of the United Kingdom”.
The archbishop’s office declined to comment.
However, as The Daily Beast reported last week, Mark Edwards, a Newcastle priest, said he checked with the archbishop’s office and was informed that the claim that they were married in his backyard may have been the result of a misunderstanding stemming from the fact that “Meghan is an American”.
Rev. Mark Edwards told his local newspaper in Newcastle, The Chronicle, that he contacted Archbishop Justin Welby’s office to “get some clarity” about the allegation after the couple mentioned it in their interview with Oprah Winfrey.
He said he was partly motivated to do so because he was inundated with requests for private or outdoor weddings during the blockade that he was unable to comply with, because the law states that weddings in the Church of England must take place in “a certified place of worship ”and cannot be conducted outside.
Edwards said the person he spoke to told him, “Justin had a private conversation with the couple in the garden about the wedding, but I can guarantee that no wedding took place until the national televised event.”
Edwards said it was “in the public interest for the church leader to clarify everything.”
The Daily Beast sought comment from the Sussex communications team.
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