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Prince Harry_ and Meghan Markle reveal their choice of wedding music, Meghan’s tiara, and the flowers that didn’t come in as expected in a series of new interviews recorded for the new Windsor Castle exhibit A Royal Wedding: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
It is the first time the couple has spoken extensively about their wedding, which took place at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle and is the focus of the new exhibit, which opened Friday and will run through January 6. It includes, among other things, a display of Meghan’s Givenchy wedding dress and a replica of Harry’s Blues and Royals frock coat.
In the voiceover interviews that accompany the exhibition, Prince Harry reveals how he chose the beautiful piece of music that accompanied Meghan down the aisle to, and that he joined Meghan and the Queen to choose her wedding day tiara.
“Every girl’s dream to be able to try on a tiara, and, funnily enough, the one that suited the best, the one that looked the best on you without question, I shouldn’t have really even been there, but such an incredible loan by my grandmother, it was very sweet,” Harry says in the interview.
Meghan reveals how she decided to hire Clare Waight Keller to make her wedding dress after their very first meeting. “I met her and I just knew it, I walked back to the house and I said to Harry, “She’s going to do my dress, I just know it,” she says.
The couple also reveal how the cold snap in April meant there were fewer flowers to pick for Meghan’s bouquet, and how they had been busily planting bulbs at their home in Kensington Palace. “We have a very small garden here that we had been planting things in the fall for and what was really special, I think, was that the morning of the wedding Harry went in and he picked some flowers to go into my bouquet, which was really beautiful and something that makes it sentimental and really meaningful,” Meghan says.
Harry adds, “We didn’t have as many flowers in our little garden as we had hoped for because I think it snowed at Easter! That kind of ruined the whole thing!”
The couple also explain why the wedding music was so important to them. According to Meghan, “We worked quite a lot with The Prince of Wales who has incredible taste in specifically classical music, so it was really fun to spend some time going through selections with him, and then there were specific choices that were made. We knew that we wanted to have a gospel choir, for example. There was a song that was very meaningful to us, “Stand By Me,” but we wanted a gospel rendition of it for it to really have a lot of soul. And then the choice to be able to have “Amen/This Little Light of Mine” be the song as we were walking out of the church was also very important to us, to really give it a sense of our personality in conjunction with something that still had a formality and sense of tradition.”
Harry reveals he chose Handel’s “Eternal Source Of Light Divine,” to which Meghan walked down the aisle. “I was looking for something completely different and ended up stumbling across this piece of music. Something that epitomizes the whole day, the whole feeling that I have for her, and this incredibly impactful music with no organ whatsoever, with a soloist who actually did the most incredible job, to the orchestra. And now, both of us, wherever we are, whatever we’re doing, we can close our eyes, listen to that music and take ourselves straight back to that moment. It’s a beautiful thing for both of us.”
The highlight of the display is Meghan’s wedding dress, which created by the Clare Waight Keller, the artistic director at Givenchy. Meghan says she had “long followed” Clare’s work and “wanted a female designer, that was very important. I wanted a British designer, because I wanted to embrace my new home in that way. I had a very clear vision of what I wanted for the day, and what I wanted the dress to look like. I knew at the onset I wanted a bateau neckline, I wanted a cropped sleeve, I wanted a very timeless, classic feeling and, obviously with respect to the environment we were in and St George’s Chapel, being really modest in what it would look like, I knew that the tailoring was so key, because the dress itself would be so covered up.”
The gown and the five-meter long silk tulle veil—embroidered with flowers from each of the 53 Commonwealth nations—were created after 3,900 hours of work by a 50-strong team.
The bride’s diamond and platinum bandeau tiara, bequeathed to Her Majesty by her grandmother Queen Mary in 1953 is also on public display for the first time along with Harry’s frockcoat uniform of the Household Cavalry (the Blues and Royals).
“‘I chose the frock coat as a uniform, with permission from my Grandmother, because I think it’s one of the smartest Household Cavalry uniforms. It’s one of my favorites, and I was very fortunate to be able to wear that on the day,” Harry says in the recording.
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