{"id":457699,"date":"2025-09-28T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457699\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:57:10","slug":"meghan-markles-request-at-first-wedding-that-left-guests-asking-is-she-kidding-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/457699\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s request at first wedding that left guests asking &#8216;is she kidding?&#8217; | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, while Meghan was not that famous at the time, she reportedly had a strict request to guests at her first wedding, which was met with some amusement.<\/p>\n<p>In her book The Palace Papers, Tina Brown quoted a guest who attended the 2011 wedding.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Brown, the guest said: \u201cThe only jarring note is that Meghan sent out a note requesting \u2018no social media, please\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were all laughing because she had been on Suits for a few months and at that point, we were like, is she kidding me? She was like, \u2018I&#8217;m a really big actress\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meghan and Trevor separated in 2013 as a result of \u201cirreconcilable differences\u201d, with their divorce being finalised in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This was four years before Meghan walked down the aisle again to marry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> in Windsor after their whirlwind romance, with Meghan giving up her role on Suits to marry King Charles\u2019 youngest son.<\/p>\n<p>The couple <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/1988849\/Prince-Harry-Meghan-rushed-engagement-reason-Prince-William\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had dated for less than two years before Harry asked for Meghan\u2019s hand in marriage<\/a> at their Kensington Palace home, with their wedding then taking place less than a year later.<\/p>\n<p>While Meghan was welcomed into the Royal fold, her new life as a working royal did not last long, with both Meghan and Harry quitting the Firm in 2020 to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2114198\/meghan-markle-montecito-home-dog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">move to Montecito in California<\/a>. Since then, the Duchess of Sussex has been carving her own path by launching podcast series, a business and even striking up deals with streaming giants such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/netflix\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, while Meghan was not that famous at the time, she reportedly had a strict request to guests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,153400,25676,2810,69727,153401,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-457699","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-meghan-markle-first-wedding","15":"tag-meghan-markle-prince-harry","16":"tag-meghan-markle-royal-family","17":"tag-meghan-markle-suits","18":"tag-meghan-markle-trevor","19":"tag-prince-harry","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115281569646132612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457699","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=457699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}