After Kate’s cuties, it’s Meghan and her mini marvels
NOBODY cried, nobody refused to walk down the aisle and nobody stamped their little foot through the veil. If we don’t mention Princess Charlotte sticking out her tongue at the start (and we won’t), it would be fair to say that she stole the show. Again.
In fact, she is becoming a truly polished member of the Firm at only three years old. Her composure and calm are reminiscent of her grandmother and, as for the wave, it says: ‘I won’t let you down.’ But to be fair, for all the four page boys and six bridesmaids who made up Meghan’s mini army, it was a triumph.
Three-year-old Florence van Cutsem – Harry’s goddaughter – acquitted herself so well that comparisons with her cousin Grace’s tantrum on the palace balcony at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding seven years ago are inevitable. Poor dear, I can’t see her being invited again.
Four-year-old Prince George managed to triumph over his stage nerves to come out from behind Mummy’s legs and was encouraged to ‘keep walking’ by his older friend, Harry’s godson Jasper Dyer, six. The pair holding hands at the back of the wedding train was surely one of the cutest shots of the day.
And hats off to Meghan’s friend, Jessica Mulroney. How she got her seven-year-old twins, Brian and John, to expertly carry that long train up a steep flight of stone stairs without stumbling was nothing short of a miracle.
Along with the other two pages, they deserved to be wearing their mini uniform of the Blues and Royals. As a lasting memory of the day, the couple asked for each boy to have their initials embroidered in gold on their shoulder straps. The tiny team of bridesmaids— Florence, Charlotte, Meghan’s goddaughters Remi, six and seven-year-old Rylan Litt, Ivy Mulroney, four, and Harry’s two-yearold goddaughter Zalie Warren, shone like complimenting jewels.
Their Givenchy gowns in ivory silk radzimir, with short puff sleeves were hand-finished with a double silk ribbon detail tied at the back in a bow. The result was a film director’s dream, a wafting cloud of soft outriders around the bride.
Not to be left out, Meghan also had the bridesmaids’ white leather Aquazzura shoes monogrammed with their initials as a keepsake of the special day when they lived every young girl’s dream.
‘A wafting cloud of soft outriders around the bride’