Harry page boy reprises role for rugby star Alicia
SCRUMMY soprano Alicia Lowes has twice sung in front of a packed Twickenham stadium, while her fiance, Alex Simpson, is in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest person to row across oceans three times.
But their experience of the spotlight is negligible compared with that of one of Alicia’s youngest cousins — Jasper Dyer, who, aged six, was seen by a global audience of nearly two billion when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married at Windsor.
Now, Jasper is going on parade again — this time in front of 250 guests when Alex and Alicia marry next month in Monmouthshire.
‘He is going to be my page boy,’ says Alicia, who sings the National Anthem at next weekend’s first Women’s Six Nations match. A particular joy, she adds, is that her uncle, Jasper’s father, Mark Dyer, will also be at the wedding, after battling stomach cancer. A mentor to the Duke of Sussex, the former Welsh Guards officer features heavily in Harry’s memoir, Spare.
‘Last year was hell for Mark, but he’s turned the corner and
is cancer-free,’ Alicia tells me.