Prince Harry and his fabulous fiancée, Meghan Markle, have officially set a date for their royal wedding.
Yes, the happy couple will marry in Windsor Castle on Saturday, May 26 (we’ll start looking out for a hat, so).
The weekend is a bank holiday in the UK, while Memorial Day in the US falls on Monday, May 28 – meaning royal fans on both sides of the Atlantic will have three days straight during which to celebrate (in Ireland, we’ll have to wait until the following weekend for our June Bank Holiday).
Meghan and Harry’s choice of date also breaks royal tradition: titled folk in Britain usually marry on a weekday.
Wills and Kate, for example, opted for a Thursday (April 29, 2011) with the Queen and Prince Philip also marrying on a Thursday (November 20, 1947). Charles and Diana decided on a Wednesday (July 29, 1981).
Harry, 33, Meghan, 36, have been dating for around 16 months and are clearly completely smitten with one another.
They will say ‘I do,’ at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. The church is much smaller than Westminster Abbey in London – where Kate and William married (a capacity of 800 as opposed to 2,000) – but it won’t be the first time a royal couple have wed there.
In 2008, Peter Phillips (the son of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips) married Autumn Kelly at St George’s.
Harry’s uncle Prince Edward also married his wife, Sophie Rhys-Jones, there in 1999.
And Windsor is a “very special place” for Harry, according to the prince’s communication’s secretary Jason Knauf.
