Volume II of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan, starts out with a series of dreamy, never-before-seen moments from the pair’s fairy-tale wedding.
Even though there had been much criticism in the media surrounding her father’s side of the family in the days leading up to the wedding, Meghan recalls being in a “really calm space.” She says, “I don’t know how I was so calm. I look back and, ‘How was I so calm?'”
She said all she wanted before walking down the aisle to Harry was a mimosa, a croissant, and to play the song “Going to the Chapel.” And she did just that, she said, and “it was great.”
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Harry chose the instrumental song Meghan walked down the aisle to, which the Duchess of Sussex recalls was “stunning” and “so beautiful.”
“My father helped us choose an orchestra, which made all the difference,” Harry says of King Charles III.
“Harry’s dad is very charming. And I said to him, like, ‘I’ve lost my dad in this.’ So him as my father-in-law was really important to me. So I asked him to walk me down the aisle, and he said yes,” Meghan remembers, as a clip of her walking down the aisle with Charles comes on the screen .
“I just remember thinking, Just take a deep breath and keep going,” Meghan says. “The whole thing was surreal. It was at that moment I could also see H,” she later added.
Asked what was going through his head as he watched Meghan walk toward him down the aisle, Harry joked that he thought, “Look at me, look what I got. Look what I found.”
“The world was watching us, but when we were actually at the altar, as far as I was concerned, it was just the two of us,” Harry added sweetly.
“H and I are really, really good at finding each other in the chaos,” Meghan says. “When we find each other, we reconnect to, like, ‘Oh, it’s you. It’s you.’ It’s not that the rest of it doesn’t matter, but the rest of it feels temporary.”
Throughout Episode 4, Meghan, Harry, and their friends reflect on how groundbreaking the Sussexes’ wedding was for royal standards—Meghan is mixed race, her mother is Black, many of her guests were Hollywood stars and notable figures of all backgrounds, and she and Harry had a gospel choir at their wedding.
Though racism became a big, dark topic during Meghan’s time as a senior royal, Harry says in the episode that surprisingly, when it came to the gospel choir, “There wasn’t too much pushback on that” from the palace. “Everyone was like, ‘Gospel choir? Wonderful idea. That’s great,'” he says.
Once the grand, televised ceremony was over, Meghan and Harry spent the evening celebrating with their friends and loved ones at St. George’s Hall. Elton John performed, the couple’s famous friends (Serena Williams, Victoria and David Beckham, and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few) joined in, and they cut their wedding cake with a sword.
“I mean it was great. It was all so over-the-top. I think most people were just like, ‘What is happening?'” Meghan said of the wedding and reception.
“Land of 1000 Dances” was the song they danced to for their first dance. “That was our first dance. It was so fun. I was just spinning like a whirlwind. It was so great,” Meghan recalls.
Harry and Meghan married on May 19, 2018, at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle.
Rosa Sanchez is the senior news editor at Harper’s Bazaar, working on news as it relates to entertainment, fashion and culture. Previously, she was a news editor at ABC News and, prior to that, a managing editor of celebrity news at American Media. She has also written features for Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Forbes, and The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets.
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