Exclusive. After learning of the bride’s peculiar request, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s enthusiasm for attending Pippa Middleton’s wedding together was short-lived
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, who were not yet engaged and had only been dating for a year, were scheduled to spend time together during Pippa Middleton’s wedding reception.
With a rigid seating arrangement that split up every pair present, the Princess of Wales’ younger sister had other plans.
As a result, Meghan ate dinner with Roger Federer’s wife Mirka, while Harry sat with ITV News at Ten host Tom Bradby, rather than spending the evening together as a new couple.
According to Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s history of the Sussexes, Finding Freedom, guests at Pippa and hedge fund manager James Matthews’ 2017 wedding feasted on fish and lamb and drank ‘2002 Dom Ruinart Champagne’.
They stated, «The couple should have had a great evening sitting together in the custom glass marquee that had been set up on the 18-acre property, but no couples sat together per Pippa’s request.»
Following the lunch, Harry and Meghan, who was still relatively unknown in royal circles at the time, reconnected close to the dance floor. Mr. Scobie and Ms. Durand observe that although «the old Harry would have certainly closed at the bash with the rest of his friends,» the 32-year-old prince instead spent the rest of the evening catching up with his fiancée.
In addition to the seating chart, Meghan was not present at the ceremony held at St. Mark’s Church in Englefield, West Berkshire, that day.
It seems that Pippa and her mother, Carole Middleton, were both worried that the royal couple’s attendance might overshadow the special day.
In the end, the future Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided that Meghan would be better off staying away from the media and church.
Before Harry went back to the Airbnb for lunch with his companion, Meghan dressed on a black dress and did her own cosmetics.
After that, he took them both to the Middletons’ Bucklebury house for the reception.
