Here’s Why Everyone Thinks Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Wedding Invitations Have a Typo
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been keeping us abreast of their wedding planning, with Kensington Palace offering up deets on everything from their cake (lemon elderflower, FYI), to their invitations. While everything seems to be going perfectly as planned, the formal invites had shrewd eyes doing a double take: There seemed to be a typo, and a rather larg one at that.
While the cards were regal to be sure, with the three-feather badge of the Prince of Wales and gold ink featured on the die-stamped cards, there was one detail in particular that seemed to stand out. As those looking close enough might have noticed, the space allotted for Prince Harry’s name seemed to read something else entirely: “His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales requests the pleasure of the company of ______ at the marriage of his royal highness Prince Henry of Wales with Ms. Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle on Saturday, 19th May 2018 at 12 noon followed by a reception at Windsor Castle.”
Wait just a minute… Prince Henry?!
That’s right! Printmaker Lottie Small knows her stuff. The younger son of Princess Diana and Prince was actually given the name Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor at birth. Despite the fact that we’ve know him as Prince Harry since… well, youth, it’s merely a nickname that reportedly stuck in childhood.
Markle, by contrast, did NOT opt to use her real name, which isn’t Meghan at all, but Rachel — Meghan is her middle name. Her title was formal, however, with the “Ms.” reportedly chosen to reflect the fact that she is a divorcée.
Other chatter surrounding the invites seemed to stem from the fact that it differed slightly in formality from that of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s.
As some have pointed out, Lord Chamberlaid was commanded by the Queen to request guests’ presence, where Prince Charles merely requests the presence of guests’ company.
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