“I Hated That Day”: Royal Photographer Says Harry And Meghan’s Wedding Was “A Disaster”
A photographer at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding has slammed the event as “miserable” and a “disaster” six years after the Sussexes’ nuptials.
Harry tied the knot with the Suits alum in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018, in front of 600 guests and a global TV audience estimated at 1.9 billion viewers.
- Photographer Arthur Edwards called Harry and Meghan's wedding "miserable" and "a disaster."
- Harry and Meghan's attempt to avoid the press made the photographer's job difficult.
- Arthur said the couple deliberately turned away during their carriage ride.
Arthur Edwards, who has been photographing the royal family since 1977, said the couple made his job really difficult and did everything they could to avoid the press.
“I hated the day. The day was a miserable day,” the experienced photographer revealed during an interview with The Sun.
Arthur Edwards, a photographer at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, said the event was the “worst royal engagement” he ever attended
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“It was the worst royal engagement I ever did. Because Harry was determined to keep the newspapers away from it as much as possible,” alleged the 83-year-old.
Arthur reportedly covered royal weddings in the past, such as Prince William and Princess Catherine’s nuptials in 2011 and the wedding of Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex in 1999.
On that occasion, trying to capture a good photograph of the newlyweds was “hopeless.”
“Harry was determined to keep the newspapers away from it as much as possible,” alleged the 83-year-old
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The photographer said the couple turned away when they rode past him in their carriage while greeting the crowd outside, preventing him from getting a good angle for his pictures.
“And then the carriage shot, where they went past me in the carriage, they looked the other way,” he recalled. “So, for me, it was a disaster.”
When the journalist asked whether the Sussexes’ behavior had been “deliberate” to make him feel “unwelcome,” Arthur responded, “I felt so. It wasn’t just me. In many ways, [the press] were badly treated.”
“Harry was angry at us about things said about Meghan. Some of the things were pretty harsh. Some were pretty unfair.
“He was angry, and I felt we were punished for that.”
Arthur reportedly covered royal weddings in the past, such as Prince William and Princess Catherine’s nuptials in 2011
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Two years after the wedding, Harry and Meghan would step down as senior working royals to move to Montecito, California.
The couple kept their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles but are no longer addressed as his or her royal highness (HRH). Harry also gave up his military titles.
They are parents to two children: four-year-old Prince Archie and two-year-old Princess Lilibet.
Harry was very critical of the press in the Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, which premiered in 2022.
In the six-episode series, the Duke of Sussex said there was an “unconscious bias” around race within Buckingham Palace, which especially affected his wife, and denounced the “planting of stories” by the media.
“I feel as though being part of this family, it is my duty to uncover this exploitation and bribery that happens within our media,” Harry said in the first episode. “There’s leaking, but there’s also planting of stories.”
“Harry was angry at us about things said about Meghan,” he explained
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“It all comes down to control; it’s like, ‘This family is ours to exploit. Their trauma is our story and our story and our narrative to control.'”
Harry also slammed the role of the press in the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in August 1997.
“I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her through into the tunnel were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying in the back seat of the car,” he said in the 2017 documentary Diana, 7 Days.
“William and I know that. We’ve been told that numerous times by people who know that was the case.
“Instead of helping, [they] were taking photographs of her dying on the back seat. And then those photographs made their way back to news desks in this country.”
“It was certainly a disaster for the British taxpayers,” wrote a Facebook user
When I read the headline with “royal photographer” I first thought he was hired by the palace. In that case Harry and Meghan would have been mean. But he is just a paparazzi, so what …
that "profession" can just: upyours.jp...iginal.jpg 
Apparently the wedding was ruined because the bride and groom’s main focus wasn’t posing for a tabloid photographer. The more these people talk, the more I agree with Harry and Meghan. Get all the money you can and tell the whole system to go to hell.
Sure, get all the money you earn yourself, but don't fleece the taxpayer so you can do some really expensive interior decorating and then complain that the house isn't big enough. Don't abuse the titles you've been given and you've accepted knowing full well that a title comes with obligations and then shirk those obligations. Don't say you care about the environment and then use private planes most of the time. Don't make allegations about your family while knowing they are not able to respond to them. Lead the life you want to live, but renounce your title. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.
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Harry conveniently forgets that it was French paparazzi that chased Diana's car that night. I'm not defending the British press, because they definitely do some shady s**t but this narrative that they are to blame for everything bad that ever happened in his life is wrong. He needs to decide once and for all if he wants to be in the public eye or he doesn't, because he doesn't seem to have a problem with being photographed or filmed when he's making money from it.
1. Harry basically thinks ALL paparazzi are scum, and with good reason - they are. Their nationalities don't matter, and they sell their pictures to anyone who will buy them - they absolutely sought out British press to sell those photos of Diana to, nevermind they were French. And the British press BOUGHT them. They are just as deep into that disgusting vulture profession. 2. Just because he's famous doesn't mean ANYONE has the right to exploit him. You know what the difference is? When HE chooses to be filmed/photographed, it's HIS choice. When they chase him all over town, or point telephoto lenses into his private dwellings, that's exploitation. He's also entitled to make money from his appearances, because he CHOSE to appear. When paparazzi snap at him, he doesn't get a dime. Why are you defending heartless, cold THIEVES and vultures?
Load More Replies... When I read the headline with “royal photographer” I first thought he was hired by the palace. In that case Harry and Meghan would have been mean. But he is just a paparazzi, so what …
that "profession" can just: upyours.jp...iginal.jpg
Apparently the wedding was ruined because the bride and groom’s main focus wasn’t posing for a tabloid photographer. The more these people talk, the more I agree with Harry and Meghan. Get all the money you can and tell the whole system to go to hell.
Sure, get all the money you earn yourself, but don't fleece the taxpayer so you can do some really expensive interior decorating and then complain that the house isn't big enough. Don't abuse the titles you've been given and you've accepted knowing full well that a title comes with obligations and then shirk those obligations. Don't say you care about the environment and then use private planes most of the time. Don't make allegations about your family while knowing they are not able to respond to them. Lead the life you want to live, but renounce your title. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.
Load More Replies... Harry conveniently forgets that it was French paparazzi that chased Diana's car that night. I'm not defending the British press, because they definitely do some shady s**t but this narrative that they are to blame for everything bad that ever happened in his life is wrong. He needs to decide once and for all if he wants to be in the public eye or he doesn't, because he doesn't seem to have a problem with being photographed or filmed when he's making money from it.
1. Harry basically thinks ALL paparazzi are scum, and with good reason - they are. Their nationalities don't matter, and they sell their pictures to anyone who will buy them - they absolutely sought out British press to sell those photos of Diana to, nevermind they were French. And the British press BOUGHT them. They are just as deep into that disgusting vulture profession. 2. Just because he's famous doesn't mean ANYONE has the right to exploit him. You know what the difference is? When HE chooses to be filmed/photographed, it's HIS choice. When they chase him all over town, or point telephoto lenses into his private dwellings, that's exploitation. He's also entitled to make money from his appearances, because he CHOSE to appear. When paparazzi snap at him, he doesn't get a dime. Why are you defending heartless, cold THIEVES and vultures?
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