Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were unmarried three days before their official ceremony, as they claimed in their interview with Oprah Winfrey revealed their own marriage certificate.
In the interview, Meghan told Oprah that she and Harry tied the knot ‘in our backyard’ three days before the $ 50 million public wedding on May 19, 2018. necessary for a legal marriage to take place. Others, however, argued that the focus on inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the interview was a deliberate strategy of Meghan’s opponents to undermine her greater credibility, and the specific allegation that Harry expressed her concern about her baby’s likely skin color.
Meghan Markle ‘Does not’ understand ‘the marriage rules because she is an American,’ said Archbishop’s office
The marriage certificate was obtained by the British newspaper The Sun who paid £ 42 (about $ 58) to obtain a copy from the UK Registry.
The certificate, which the witnesses give as Prince Charles and Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, confirms that the couple were indeed married on May 19, 2018 in Windsor Castle – and a former official who helped draft the license for the wedding, told the newspaper. Meghan is “naturally confused” about the marriage.
Stephen Borton, former chief clerk at the faculty office, told the Sun: “I’m sorry, but Meghan is obviously confused and clearly misinformed. They had not married before the Archbishop of Canterbury three days earlier.
“The special license I helped draw up enabled them to get married in St George’s Chapel in Windsor and what happened there on 19 May 2018 and which was seen by millions of people around the world was the official wedding as recognized by the Church of England and the law.
“What I suspect they did was exchange some simple vows that they might have written themselves and that were fashionable, and said it before the archbishop.”
Meghan, 39, said in her interview: ‘You know, three days before our wedding we were married. No one knows. The vows we made in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury. ”
The certificate names Harry as ‘single’ and his career as ‘Prince of the United Kingdom’ and Meghan as ‘divorced’ and ‘actor’. Her father, Thomas Markle, is described as a ‘lighting director’ and Charles is described as a ‘prince of the United Kingdom’.
The archbishop’s office declined to comment.
As The Daily Beast reported last week, Mark Edwards, a priest from Newcastle, said he had checked at the archbishop’s office and was told that the allegation that they would get married in the backyard of their house was the result of a misunderstanding was. stemming from the fact that “Meghan is an American.”
Ds. Mark Edwards told his local newspaper in Newcastle: The Chronicle, that he contacted Archbishop Justin Welby’s office to get some clarity on the claim after the couple mentioned it in their Oprah Winfrey interview.
He said he was partly motivated to do so because he was inundated with requests for private or outdoor weddings during lockdown that he could not carry out because the law stipulates that the wedding of Church of England must take place in a certified venue. of worship ”and can not be kept out.
Edwards says the person he spoke to told him: ‘Justin had a private conversation with the couple in the garden about the wedding, but I can assure you that no wedding took place until the national television event. not.’
Edwards said it was “in the public interest for the church leader to correct the record.”
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