Harry and Meghan’s Wedding Photographer Reveals the Bizarre Warning Given to Guests: ‘Be Careful…’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding in 2018 at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, looked straight out of a fairytale. As the couple recently celebrated their seventh anniversary on May 19, their wedding photographer came forward and shared the bizarre warning given to guests attending the Sussex wedding.

Photographer Alexi Lubomirski, who also captured Harry and Markle’s engagement photos, took to TikTok to share details about the couple’s extravagant nuptials. He dubbed the big event ‘bizarre’ as guests were advised to be careful with their conversations with one another, as folks watching on television can 'lip read'. According to the Royal Insider, the photographer said, “We arrived and it was such a bizarre day. You are arriving at this royal wedding, and as you enter the soldiers at the front gate, they tell you, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, please be careful what you are saying to each other because the world can lip read.’” As such, many guests allegedly took the warning seriously and used their hands to cover their mouths while conversing.

The wedding photographer, covering his mouth with his hand in his TikTok video, recounted, “As you walk in, you see a lot of people talking like this...Everybody on these cameras is watching and lip-reading.” Lubomirski summed that the ceremony was overall ‘beautiful.’

While the guests did as they were told, it is believed that Markle broke a royal protocol at the wedding. According to the Daily Mail, the newlyweds took a carriage to Windsor Castle after their nuptials. As Markle sat with Harry in the carriage on the Long Walk and into Windsor Castle, she turned to him and said the F-word, followed by a laugh. The newlyweds passed a crowd of about 150,000 people, standing on both sides of the road on the way to the church.

Coming back to Lubomirski, on TikTok, he also got candid about his interaction with Harry before the nuptials and revealed how the Duke was concerned about his grandparents. Lubomirski said he went to Harry to ask for ‘any tips’ on clicking pictures of his family, and the latter said, “Listen. Just with my grandparents [Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip], they’re very old, they’ve taken so many pictures in their lives, it’s not their fun part. So if you don’t get it quickly, they’re gonna just move out.” The Queen and her husband allegedly arrived early. As the photographer saw her standing, he asked the Queen's assistant to deliver her a message. Lubomirski recalled, “I say to her lady, her assistant, ‘Could you just go and tell Her Majesty that we’re going to be just five minutes?’ She looked at me and said, ‘No.’” Lubomirski then himself went to the Queen to apologize for the delay, to which the now-late monarch replied, “It’s not me you need to worry about,” alluding to her husband's temper.