{"id":404141,"date":"2025-09-07T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:22:14","slug":"prince-harrys-speech-at-prince-william-and-kates-wedding-leaves-bride-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404141\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry’s speech at Prince William and Kate’s wedding leaves bride in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his speech at the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding back in 2011, Prince Harry was said to have shared a number of “banter” nicknames – and one proved too much for Kate\"PrincessPrincess Kate was moved to tears by Harry’s speech, author claims(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n

Prince Harry “made Princess Kate cry” with a touching nickname for her during his speech at the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding. Standing beside his brother at the 2011 ceremony, Harry demonstrated just how close the siblings truly were through his heartfelt address.<\/p>\n

In his 2021 book titled Brothers and Wives, Royal author Christopher Andersen revealed what Harry said and how brilliantly it was received by the wedding guests. Mr Andersen wrote: “In his best man’s toast, Harry apologised to Kate “for having to marry a bald man.<\/p>\n

” delivered spot-on impressions of William, “cooing down the line at Babykins” and Kate calling his brother “Billy” and referred to them repeatedly as “the dude and the duchess”.<\/p>\n

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He then continued: “There were muffled sobs when Harry told his brother, “Our mother would be so very proud of you,” and sighs when he said he loved Kate like a sister.”<\/p>\n

Bringing his sister-in-law to tears, Mr Andersen then added: “At one point, the bride wiped away tears when her brother-in-law traded smiles with Chelsy and admitted that Kate and William’s decade long romance was his “inspiration”.”, reports the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Describing the conclusion of the evening, he added: “Harry put his arms around around William and Kate and began to weep.<\/p>\n

“Soon the best man and the bride were helping brush away each other’s tears while a bemused and thoroughly dry-eyed William looked on.”<\/p>\n

He then remarked: ‘”People don’t realise how much Harry and Kate love and help each other,” another guest commented on the moment. “It’s key to this whole thing”.” “.<\/p>\n

In a previous discussion on the Royally US podcast in 2021, Mr Anderson stated: “Harry was always close to Kate and he always said she was the sister he never had.”<\/p>\n

He also became “very emotional” at William and Kate’s wedding, with the expert previously noting: “He described her as his sister and she got emotional too!”.<\/p>\n

“They always had this banter, they had similar senses of humour.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his speech at the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding back in 2011, Prince Harry was said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-404141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115160635543333108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}