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Earlier this year, Lauren Sánchez’s brother said his sister’s wedding to Jeff Bezos was going to be “like a Princess Di thing,” referring, of course, to Princess Diana’s 1981 wedding to the former Prince Charles.
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When Sánchez and Bezos married on June 27 in front of a star-studded array of guests, they likely did take at least one piece of inspiration from a famous wedding of the British royal family—Kate Middleton and Prince William.
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When William and Kate married in 2011, the same wedding reception singer sang the same song that she did at the Sánchez-Bezos wedding reception last month.
Kate Middleton and Prince William weren’t at the Venice wedding of Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos—but inspiration from their royal wedding in 2011 made it to the Italian city.
As People pointed out, the Sánchez-Bezos wedding had a surprising connection to the British royal family—Ellie Goulding, who was William and Kate’s wedding reception singer, also performed for Sánchez and Bezos, right down to the same song, “Your Song.”
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Ellie Goulding in Venice, Italy on June 27, 2025
That tune, of course, is a rendition of an original by Elton John, who was famously a close friend of William’s mother Princess Diana’s. John also performed at the late Princess of Wales’s funeral on September 6, 1997.
Sánchez and Bezos’s wedding reception on June 27 took place on the island of San Giorgio Maggiori; Goulding also lent her voice to the second wedding reception of the former Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, hosted by King Charles (then Prince Charles) in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011. Goulding later called the experience 14 years ago “nerve-wracking.”
“But William and Kate were very appreciative,” she told The Daily Mail in 2012. “They are an awesome couple and told me how much they enjoyed it. My band and I stayed at the reception all night, and it’s something I’ll treasure forever.”
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Prince William and Kate Middleton
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Kate Middleton and Prince William on their April 29, 2011 wedding day
According to royal biographer Robert Jobson’s 2024 book Catherine, the Princess of Wales, Goulding also performed her own hit, “Starry Eyed,” as well as a cover of “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers, which Jobson wrote was one of William and Kate’s favorite songs. Goulding later reunited with the couple—who were now the Prince and Princess of Wales—in Boston in December 2022, when she performed at the second iteration of William’s Earthshot Prize Awards.
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Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Ellie Goulding on December 2, 2022
In addition to Goulding, Andrea Bocelli’s son Matteo Bocelli also sang at the Sánchez-Bezos festivities, according to People. And while there were no British royals on hand, there was royalty present in the form of Jordan’s glamorous Queen Rania, as well as her son Crown Prince Hussein, his wife Princess Rajwa, and their newborn daughter Princess Iman.
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Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos in Venice, Italy during their wedding weekend
Back in March, Sánchez’s brother Paul told TMZ that his younger sister’s wedding was “gonna be like a Princess Di thing,” he said of Princess Diana’s 1981 wedding to the former Prince Charles. “It’s gonna be an amazing event. It’s gonna be star-studded and fun.”
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