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QUEEN’S LETTER DID NOT SNUB MEGHAN
The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will take place on May 19 at Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth II issued a letter of consent for the marriage of Meghan Markle with Price Harry. But shortly after the letter emerged, some questions were raised by media organisations and individuals, speculating that the wordings of the consent letter showed that the Queen likes Kate Middleton more than the soon-to-be-royal American actor.
The comparisons were made on the basis of wordings from the Queen’s letter of consent written for Kate in 2011, which referred to Kate as “our trusty and well-beloved Catherine Elizabeth Middleton”, whereas Meghan is simply referred to as “Rachel Meghan Markle”, according to The Independent.
While the wordings might seem like a snub, but it turned out that the letters were for two different occasions.
The experts then compared Kate’s ‘Charter of Declaration’ letter to Meghan’s — and it was found that the wordings were similar — referring to the Duchess of Cambridge as “Catherine Elizabeth Middleton”. A Twitter handle named, Gert’s Royals, tweeted the comparison pictures and wrote, “No, the Queen did not slight Meghan Markle by not referring to her as “Our trusty & well-beloved” like she did Kate in the formal consent [letter] with official seal released on the day of wedding. If you look at the two online consents from Privy Council records for Will & Harry, same wording.”
Kate’s consent letter was actually from the Instrument of Consent, which occurs closer to the wedding day, and not from the Charter of Declaration like Meghan’s was, reported The Independent.
As fifth and soon-to-be-sixth in line to the British throne, Harry is among a handful of senior royals who must seek the monarch’s permission to marry under the Succession to the Crown Act, People Magazine reported.
The British monarch issued a declaration consenting “to a Contract of Matrimony between My Most Dearly Beloved Grandson Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales and Rachel Meghan Markle” on Thursday. Alongside the declaration, the queen signed an Instrument of Consent, a formal notice of approval, transcribed in calligraphy and issued it under the Great Seal of the Realm.