Two weeks later, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle start to backtrack
After his incendiary interview with Oprah, one of the most controversial in the history of the British royal house, some fragments of his story begin to fall apart. For example, the fact that they were secretly married three days before their wedding, something that has been denied by the church, the official documents, and now also the environment of the Dukes of Sussex. A "confusion" that, in the words of Stephen Borton, former chief secretary of the Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, had called into question the veracity of the official acts carried out by the institution.
"The Special License that I helped draft was given for them to be married in St George's Chapel in Windsor on May 19, 2018, in full view of millions of people around the world. That is the wedding that the Church of England and the law recognize it," explains Borton. "What I suspect they did was exchange a series of common vows that they would surely have written themselves. It's fashionable, but no matter how much they say it before the archbishop, it's just a simple audience."
Something that, as confirmed by the environment of the Dukes of Sussex today, seems to be closer to reality than what Meghan told during her interview, but even so, their statements suggest that they have not completely given their arms to twist: "The couple exchanged their vows a couple of days before the official and legal wedding that took place on May 19." In other words, their environment leaves the door open for them, and not the institutions, to decide the moment in which they felt that they were truly married.
In fact, and according to what they told during their conversation with Oprah, the marriage has those vows framed in the backyard of the million-dollar mansion that the family shares in Montecito, one of the most exclusive areas of California. Official documents, for their part, confirm that the wedding took place during that celebration that was broadcast around the world from Windsor and that Prince Charles, Harry's father, and Doria Ragland, Meghan's mother, acted as witnesses.
