Harry and Meghan’s wedding lie exposed by Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury has revealed one claim Harry and Meghan made in their tell-all Oprah interview was not true.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has confirmed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry weren’t legally married in their back garden three days before the royal wedding.

Meghan told Oprah Winfrey during their bombshell chat that she and Harry tied the knot “in our backyard” before the lavish public ceremony at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018.

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During her sit-down with Oprah, Meghan said she and Prince Harry were married in secret before the big day was broadcast to the world. Picture: AFP.

Meghan told the US chat show queen only she, Harry and Justin Welby were there, with Harry later adding: “Just the three of us.”

Officials later poured cold water on the claim, with Stephen Borton, who drew up the licence for the wedding, telling The Sun Meghan was “obviously confused”.

And now the Archbishop has toldLa Repubblica that the wedding seen by millions across the world was the real deal.

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Meghan and Harry sat down with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month. Picture: CBS

He said: “If any of you ever talk to a priest, you expect them to keep that talk confidential. It doesn’t matter who I’m talking to.

“I had a number of private and pastoral meetings with the Duke and Duchess before the wedding.

“The legal wedding was on the Saturday.

“I signed the wedding certificate, which is a legal document, and I would have committed a serious criminal offence if I signed it knowing it was false.

“So you can make what you like about, but the legal wedding was on the Saturday.

“I won’t say what happened at any other meetings.”

According to the Archbishop, the royal wedding was indeed the real deal. Picture: Getty Images.

Mr Borton, former chief clerk at the Faculty Office, previously told The Sun: “I’m sorry, but Meghan is obviously confused and clearly misinformed.

“They did not marry three days earlier in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

“The Special Licence I helped draw up enabled them to marry at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. What happened there on May 19 2018 and was seen by millions around the world was the official wedding as recognised by the Church of England and the law.

“What I suspect they did was exchange some simple vows they had perhaps written themselves, and which is fashionable, and said that in front of the Archbishop — or, and more likely, it was a simple rehearsal.”

Meghan, 39, had stunned the world by telling US talk show queen Oprah: “You know, three days before our wedding we got married.

“No one knows that, but we called the Archbishop and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle, is for the world, but we want our union between us’.

“The vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury.”

Meghan said they wanted their union to be private, so asked to be married three days before the royal wedding. Picture: CBS.

She said she and Harry asked Welby to marry them in private at Nottingham Cottage — their home in the grounds of Kensington Palace.

Harry, 36, chimed in: “Just the three of us.”

Under the law, a marriage cannot happen without two witnesses present.

A copy of the official wedding certificate confirms the actual ceremony did take place on May 19 at Windsor.

The witnesses are recorded as Prince Charles and Meghan’s mum Doria Ragland.

It states the Sussexes were married according to the “rites and ceremonies of the Established Church” by Special Licence by “Justin Cantuar”.

This is an abbreviation of the Latin Cantuariensis, meaning Canterbury, and is the formal way the Archbishop signs himself on official documents.

Harry and Meghan married in front of 600 guests in a wedding estimated to have cost $58 million, including security.

This article originally appeared on The Sun and is reproduced here with permission.