Meghan Markle and Prince Harry celebrated their wedding anniversary today, marking six years since they tied the knot at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
The picturesque early summer wedding was watched by an estimated 1.9 billion people around the world and was attended by celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, David Beckham and George Clooney.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrate a ‘sugar anniversary’ thanks to the traditional gift given to them for the occasion.
According to tradition, it should symbolize the sweet story of how the couple fell madly in love, along with the richness of eternal love.
But as their affection for each other grows and develops, their highly publicized break-ups with the royal family continue to raise questions about their difficult relationship.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry celebrated their wedding anniversary today, marking six years since they tied the knot at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Harry and Meghan recently wrapped up their three-day ‘quasi-royal’ tour to Nigeria from May 10-13.
The couple announced they would be stepping down as working members of the royal family in 2020, before moving across the pond to Montecito, California shortly after.
They moved there with their son Archie, who was born in London. They then welcomed a daughter in June 2021 named Lilibet Diana.
It is named after Harry’s mother, Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth, who was called Lilibet by her loved ones, including her husband, Prince Philip, and her sister, Princess Margaret.
Harry and Meghan recently wrapped up their three-day “almost royal” tour to Nigeria from May 10 to 13, in which they missed American Mother’s Day with their children to meet with charities and officials from the Governor’s Office. Lagos State.
Meghan also spoke at an event on women in leadership in Abuja, where she said it was “flattering” to discover through a genealogy test that she is 43 per cent Nigerian.
Before his trip to the African country, Harry was in the UK for an Invictus Games event in London, but did not turn up to see his father, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment, during his flying visit.
Their event also took place just three miles from where King Charles was at Clarence House.
As Harry and Meghan’s love for each other grows, their highly publicized breakups with the royal family continue to raise questions about their rocky relationship. Above: The former ‘fab four’ in September 2022
Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said Meter: ‘It’s sad, things have gone very badly and Harry hasn’t seen his father.
“It seems to me that relations between the Sussexes and Buckingham Palace couldn’t get much worse.”
Harry had hoped to meet him during his trip, which follows an earlier quick visit in February after Charles’ cancer diagnosis.
But Harry’s spokesman said at the time: “In response to the many inquiries and continued speculation about whether or not the Duke will meet his father while in the UK this week, unfortunately it will not be possible due to His full schedule. Majesty”.
“The Duke, of course, understands his father’s diary of engagements and other priorities and hopes to see him soon.”
Harry and Meghan have made several claims about the Firm over the years. A month before Lilibet was born, the Sussexes sat down with talk show host Oprah, who was a guest at her wedding, to talk about ‘Megxit.’
In Spare, Harry alleged that the Princess of Wales made Meghan cry in the run-up to their wedding during a fight over Princess Charlotte’s flower girl dress. Above: The couple photographed after the wedding in 2018.
Rated one of the most explosive interviews of 2021, Harry and Meghan made several shocking claims about members of the royal family.
His Netflix docuseries came out the following December, where Harry said Meghan ‘he sacrificed everything he ever knew, the freedom he had, to join me in my world.’
He then added, “I ended up sacrificing everything I know to join her in her world,” a reference to him moving abroad with his wife to their home country.
The couple has since made several lucrative deals with big companies like Spotify and Harry released his book Spare in 2023.
The duke made several claims in the book and alleged that there was a row between him and the Prince of Wales after he called Meghan Markle “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.
He also branded Queen Camilla, her stepmother, “dangerous” and alleged that the Princess of Wales made Meghan cry in the run-up to their wedding during a row over Princess Charlotte’s flower girl dress.
Since their departure from the royal family, Meghan and Harry have taken on a host of social activism and philanthropic roles.
Harry and Meghan will launch two new Netflix shows about cooking, gardening and polo as part of their current $100 million deal with the streaming site.
They have two non-fiction projects in the works, stemming from the launch of their new lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard.
The Duchess will focus on lifestyle-focused topics such as gardening and cooking in a move that will likely allow her to cross-promote her brand and the first series will see her “celebrate the pleasures of cooking, gardening , entertainment and friendship”.
Meghan’s project has seen the Duchess create an exclusive ‘jamfluencer’ club, with only 50 of her friends being sent jars.
Stars like Chrissy Teigen, Heather Dorak, Tracy Robbins and Kris Jenner have been sent jars of the highly sought-after jam.
Buckingham Palace appeared to take a swipe at Meghan’s latest business by running an advert for its strawberry preserve days after the duchess unveiled its product.