Four sari-clad women rock Windsor Castle

Four Indian women dressed in brightly-coloured silk and organza saris are among the special guests invited by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to their wedding in Windsor Castle today.

Suhani Jalota, the founder of Myna Mahila Foundation, arrived in the UK from Mumbai with three other colleagues earlier this week.

Their women's empowerment charity, which produces and distributes lowcost sanitary napkins to women in Mumbai's slums, is the only non-UK organisation hand-picked by the royal couple as beneficiaries of donations in lieu of wedding gifts.

“We are all very excited to be representing India at the celebrations. We are so honoured that she (Markle) chose us and kept her word that she would help us in every way she can,” said Jalota, who was among 600 guests to witness the wedding ceremony at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Jalota’s colleagues, Deborah Das, Archana Ambre and Imogen Mansfield, are among the 1,200 members of public invited to the wedding picnic party on the grounds of the Castle.

"It's all like a dream. This was the first time we sat on a plane and it did make me quite emotional," said Ambre, who along with Das made their first plane journey outside India for the wedding.

While the dress code for the wedding lists day dress and hat for female guests, Jalota's group chose pastelcoloured Banarasi and Chanderi saris with Indian motifs from among the handwoven designs created by Indian firm Raw Mango to make an Indian splash at the royal wedding.

They are also carrying a specially hand-crafted wedding gift for the newly-weds – a painting of a myna bird outline with messages for Meghan from all the women involved with the charity. "It is written in calligraphy as Meghan herself is a calligraphy artist," says Jalota.

After their day amid royalty at Windsor Castle, the four Myna women plan to tour the sights of London before returning to their work in the slums of Mumbai next Wednesday.