When it comes to a royal wedding, it’s all about location, location, location.
In 1981, Harry’s mother, the former Lady Diana Spencer, wed his father, Prince Charles, before 3,500 guests at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Years later, in 2011, Harry’s brother William wed the former Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey before nearly 2,000 guests.
On May 19, Harry’s betrothed, American Meghan Markle, will be escorted by her father, Thomas Markle, down an aisle decorated with branches of beech, birch, hornbeam, white garden roses, peonies and foxgloves before 600 guests in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle to wed her own Prince Charming.
Markle will be following in the footsteps of other royal brides. More than a dozen royal weddings have taken place at the chapel, including both the intimate prayer ceremony that marked the two-part wedding of Prince Charles to his second wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, in 2005 and Harry’s uncle Prince Edward’s wedding to Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999.
St. George’s Chapel, located within the 900-plus-year-old Windsor Castle, is a part of the residence of the royal family, whose dynasty name, Windsor, derives from the sprawling fortress built by William the Conqueror. Queen Elizabeth II spends most weekends at Windsor Castle when she is in London. In addition to the chapel, the castle…
