The only thing that did not work for the marriage of Harry and Meghan

Prince Harry_ and Meghan Markle reveal their choice of wedding music, Meghan's tiara and flowers that did not show up as expected in a series of recorded interviews for the new Windsor Castle exhibit A royal wedding: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

This is the first time the couple has spoken at length about her wedding, which took place at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and is at the center of the new exhibit, which opened Friday and will continue until Friday. On the 6th of January. It includes a representation of Meghan's Givenchy wedding dress and a replica of the Harry's Blues and Royals frock coat.

In the voice-over interviews that accompany the exhibition, Prince Harry reveals how he chose the magnificent piece of music that accompanied Meghan in the alley, and that he joined Meghan and the Queen choose her wedding diadem.

"The dream of every girl to be able to try a tiara, and, curious thing, the one that suits the best, the one that suits you best without any doubt, I should not have been there, but such a loan from my Grandmother, it was very nice, "said Harry in the interview.

Meghan reveals how she decided to hire Clare Waight Keller make her wedding dress after their very first meeting. "I met her and I knew it well, I went home and told Harry," She is going to make my dress, I just know it, "she said.

The couple also revealed how the April cold spell reduced the number of flowers to pick for Meghan's bouquet, and how they planted bulbs in their home at Kensington Palace. "We have a very small garden here for which we had planted things in the fall and what was really special, I think, is that the morning of the wedding, Harry came in and he picked flowers for my bouquet, which was really beautiful and something that makes it sentimental and really meaningful, "says Meghan.

Harry adds, "We did not have as many flowers in our little garden as we expected, because I think it was snowing at Easter! It ruined everything!"

The couple also explains why wedding music was so important to them. According to Meghan, "we worked a lot with The Prince of Wales who has an amazing taste for specifically classical music, so it was really fun to spend time making selections with him, and then specific choices were made. We knew 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 an evangelical interpretation for it to really have a lot of soul. And then the choice of being able to have the song "Amen / This Little Light of Mine" while we were leaving the church was also very important to us, to really give it a sense of our personality in conjunction with something that always had a formality and a sense of tradition ".

Harry reveals that he has chosen Haendel's "eternal source of divine light," in which Meghan walked to the alley. "I was looking for something completely different and I ended up falling on this piece of music.Something that sums up all day, all the feeling that I have for her and this incredibly percussive music without any organ , with a soloist who did it, the most amazing job I can do for the orchestra, and now wherever we are, no matter what we do, we can close our eyes, listen to music and come back to that moment, both of us. "

The wedding dress of Meghan, created by Clare Waight Keller, Artistic Director of Givenchy, is the highlight of the exhibition. Meghan says that she "has long followed" Clare's work and "wanted a designer, it was very important.I wanted a British designer, because I wanted to embrace my new home that way." J & # 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 first I wanted a boat neckline, I wanted a short sleeve, I wanted a very timeless, classic feeling and, of course, with regard to the environment in which we were and the St George chapel, being very modest, I knew that the making was so important, because the dress itself would be so concealed. "

The five-meter silk tulle dress and veil, embroidered with flowers from each of the 53 Commonwealth countries, was created after 3,900 hours of work by a team of 50 people.

The platinum and diamond wedding band tiara, bequeathed to Her Majesty by her grandmother Queen Mary in 1953, is also on display for the first time to the public with the Harry's frock uniform in the household's cavalry ( Blues and Royals).

"I chose the frock coat as a uniform, courtesy of my grandmother, as I think it is one of the most elegant uniforms of the Cavalry Households. It's one of my favorite clothes and I've been very lucky to be able to wear it the same day. "Harry said in the recording.

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