Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s guest list for their glitzy wedding in 2018 included Hollywood A-listers the Duchess “most wanted to recuit,” a royal author has claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex married on May 19, 2018, in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, and the lavish ceremony was watched by millions worldwide.
The ceremony and reception were attended by a long list of family, friends and celebrities. A-listers included George and Amal Clooney, Victoria and David Beckham, Idris Elba, Abigail Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Kris Jenner, Chrissy Teigen and many others.
But according to Tina Brown, while many celebrities were close pals of Meghan from across the pond, several of them were people she “wanted to recruit”.
Ms Brown wrote in her book The Palace Papers, released in 2022: “The celebrity guests were a portrait not of Meghan’s intimate circle but of the friends she most wanted to recruit.”
Mr and Mrs Clooney were given seats for the special ceremony right next to Lady Carolyn Warren, the wife of the late Queen’s bloodstock adviser John Warren, and opposite Princess Margaret’s son, Viscount Linley.
Several weeks later, Access Hollywood host Scott Evans quizzed the couple on the ceremony in a game of True or False.
While Mr Clooney was happy to answer questions about the wedding, he refused to spill how he knew the couple. He said: “I can’t tell you that…I am not allowed to.”
Mrs Clooney added: “We are really happy for the bride and groom. I think they are going to do great things in the world together.”
Meanwhile, according to the Daily Mail, despite their bombshell interview with her in 2021 after they quit the Royal Family in 2020, the Sussexes had only met Ms Winfrey once before their wedding.
The Duchess’s relationship with several of the stars attending her wedding seems to have cooled down since then.
Here guest list for her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan appeared to lack her wedding day’s glamour.
The first season featured actresses Mindy Kaling and Abigail Spencer, chefs Roy Choi and Alice Waters, Argentine socialite Delfina Blaquier, co-founder of bookstore Godmothers Victoria Jackson, Tatcha founder Vicky Tsai and literary agent Jennifer Rudolph Walsh.
