Meghan and Harry claimed that they secretly tied the knot before their royal wedding.
In their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duchess of Sussex said that she and Harry were married by Archbishop of Canterbury three days before the lavish ceremony at Windsor Castle.
“You know, three days before our wedding, we got married,” Meghan told Oprah. “No one knows that.”
But the General Register Office has revealed Meghan and Harry’s wedding certificate and proved that they got married on May 19, 2018, at Windsor Castle.
“They did not marry three days earlier in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury,” Stephen Borton, former chief clerk at the Faculty Office, said as per The Sun.
“The Special Licence I helped draw up enabled them to marry at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and what happened there on 19 May 2018 and was seen by millions around the world was the official wedding as recognised by the Church of England and the law.”
He continued: “What I suspect they did was exchange some simple vows they had perhaps written themselves, and which is fashionable, and said that in front of the Archbishop — or, and more likely, it was a simple rehearsal.”
During the interview, Meghan told Oprah that they asked the Archbishop to marry them in private at Nottingham Cottage.
However, their account has been dismissed by Mr. Borton, who said that there were not enough witnesses to make the ceremony valid.
“In order for them to be married a Special Licence was drawn up and the wording from Her Majesty the Queen authorising the wedding and the official venue was recorded,” Mr. Borton said.
Rev. Mark Edwards, a C of E priest from Newcastle, also said: “When I called Lambeth Palace to ask about this I was told Justin doesn’t do private weddings. Meghan doesn’t understand.
“But the fact that the Archbishop has not commented publicly needs to be addressed.”
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