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Our invites toPrince HarryandMeghan Markle’s royal wedding have finally arrived!
In volume one ofHarry & Meghan,which hit Netflix Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex spoke aboutfalling in love,getting engagedandgetting marriedin 2018. The California couple reflected with unprecedented candor, sharingpersonal photos and videosfrom their private life.
Guests were asked to wear a “dress uniform, morning coat or lounge suit” or “day dress with hat,” and direct RSVPs to the Lord Chamberlain’s office of the British Royal Household.
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Netflix cameras then panned to a picture of the more modern invite for the intimate evening celebration. “Please join us for dinner and dancing to celebrate our wedding,” the floral-edged card read. The party kicked off at 7:30 p.m. at Frogmore House in Windsor Home Park. The couple signed off with their nicknames, “Love, Haz & Meg xx.”
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Elsewhere in the third episode of Harry & Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, recalled the"painful" reasonwhy she couldn’t invite her niece Ashleigh Hale to her storybook wedding.
During a solo sit-down interview, Meghan explained that while she was not close to her half-sisterSamantha Markle, she had a great relationship with Samantha’s daughter Ashleigh. Meghan said things got tricky when it came to the guest list because she wanted to invite Ashleigh but not Samantha — which palace officials nixed.
“How do we explain that this half-sister isn’t invited to the wedding, but that the half-sister’s daughter is?” Meghan said.
“With Ashleigh, the guidance at the time was to not have her come to our wedding,” the Duchess of Sussex continued. “I was in the car with H. I had her on speakerphone and we talked her through what guidance we were given and why this assessment was made … and that’s painful.”
Ashleigh, an immigration attorney, also appeared in the docuseries, saying that she understood the decision though it hurt at the time.
Ashleigh Hale and Meghan Markle.Netflix
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“I think I said I was hurt on some level, but I understood where it was coming from,” she said. “To know that it was because ofmy biological motherthat this relationship that’s so important to me was impacted in that way … to feel like, because of her it was taken away, has been hard.”
The first three episodes ofHarry & Meghanare now streaming on Netflix. Volume two hits queues next Thursday, Dec. 15.
source: people.com
