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Prince Harry Opens Up About Wedding Day Drama with Prince Charles and Thomas Markle


From Cosmopolitan

Remember that time you set your alarm for the ungodly hour of 4:00 a.m. just to watch Prince Charles walk Meghan Markle down the aisle to marry Prince Harry? Good, sleepless times!

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But in case you'd forgotten due to a brief case of royal wedding amnesia, Charles wasn't originally meant to accompany Meghan down the aisle on her big day-that honor was supposed to go to Thomas "TMZ Is My BFF" Markle, who bowed out at the last minute thanks to a health emergency that plenty of people speculated wasn't real. And now Prince Harry's finally opening up about having to ask his own father to step in.

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Harry was interviewed for BBC's new documentary Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70, and said "I asked him to and I think he knew it was coming and he immediately said, 'Yes, of course, I’ll do whatever Meghan needs and I’m here to support you.' For him that’s a fantastic opportunity to step up and be that support, and you know he’s our father so of course he’s gonna be there for us."

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Harry was seen saying "thank you, Pa" to his dad during the wedding, and explained why he took a moment to express gratitude: "You’ve gotta say thank you," he said. "Just because he’s my father that doesn’t mean I can just sort of go, 'Okay, that’s all, I’ll take it from here.' Err, no, that is what I wanted to say but erm…and I was very grateful for him to be able to do that."

Update: my heart is a puddle.

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