Meghan Markle's secret revenge from royals in unusual choice for wedding exposed

07 October 2023 , 16:16

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Meghan Markle's secret revenge from royals in unusual choice for wedding exposed

It's been five years since Meghan Markle married Prince Harry in what has been described as a "fairytale wedding" at St George's Chapel in Windsor back in 2018.

The nuptials attracted much attention and were attended by members of the Royal Family. There's however been rumours of tension within the family over the wedding, years prior to the couple's estrangement from the royals.

It's been teased that there may have even been an apparent dig towards former actress Meghan, 42, in the choice of vehicle that took the bride and her mother Doria Ragland, 67, to the venue for the ceremony on May 19, 2018.

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Meghan Markle (left), pictured with her mother er mother Doria Ragland (right), is said to have gone to her wedding in 2018 in a Rolls-Royce Phantom IV (Phil Harris)

Meghan and her mother are believed to have been in the same Rolls-Royce that was used to transport the late Wallis Simpson to the funeral of her late husband Prince Edward - who's also known as the Duke of Windsor - in 1972.

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Both events reportedly used a maroon Phantom IV that's said to have now been in the family for decades. It's said to have been delivered to the late Queen Elizabeth II back in 1950, just two years before she became the monarch.

The same vehicle is said to have been used to take Wallis Simpson to the funeral of her husband Prince Edward, the Duke of Windsor, back in 1972 (Mirrorpix)

Wallis - who like fellow American Meghan had been a divorcee prior to her marriage into the Royal Family in 1937 - was at the heart of an "abdication crisis" prior to her husband's death. His funeral was held at St George's Chapel, where Meghan married Prince Harry, now 39.

The Daily Mail claim that the use of the same vehicle for the wedding "can hardly have been a welcome comparison". It suggested that it may have been "a joke in regrettably bad taste" and teased that it may have been "revenge by angry courtiers" over Meghan and Prince Harry's rumoured behaviour.

Wallis is understood to have been a figure of 'controversy' within the Royal Family following her husband's abdication to marry her (Mirrorpix)

Meghan got married to Prince Harry (left), whose grandmother the late Queen Elizabeth II was the niece of the Duke of Windsor, in 2018 (Getty Images)

Wallis is understood to have been a controversial figure within the Royal Family. She's associated with the abdication of her future husband, who was then known as King Edward VIII. He abdicated after less than a year in 1936 due to the relationship.

He made his intention to marry Wallis clear, though because she was a divorcee, the potential marriage wasn't approved by the Government at the time. He ended up abdicating and the couple then got married in 1937, tying the knot after her second divorce was finalised. They're said to have been "more or less exiled" in the UK following his abdication.

Meghan headed to the wedding with her mother (Phil Harris)

Following his abdication, his younger brother King George VI took to the throne from 1936 to his death in 1952. His daughter Queen Elizabeth II, then took over. There's believed to have been tension over the abdication for years though.

Wallis is said to have remained a "figure of controversy" until her death in 1986. It has even been suggested that the late Queen Mother was asked not to attend Wallis' own burial due to their rumoured "antagonistic relationship". She's even once said to have remarked: "The two people who caused me the most trouble in my life are Wallis Simpson and Hitler."

Joel Leaver