Royal Wedding: Here's how Diana will be remembered at Harry and Meghan's wedding tonight

May 18, 2018

Note: This story was first published on Friday May 18

Kensington Palace has revealed how Prince Harry will pay tribute to his late mother Princess Diana when he marries Meghan Markle tonight.

All three of Diana's siblings will look on as their nephew marries Meghan Markle in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Lady Jane Fellowes and Lady Sarah McCorquodale, were all invited to the wedding, with Lady Jane to give the reading when the pair say "I do".

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Earl Spencer is the youngest of Diana's siblings, with Lady Sarah born nine months after their mother, Frances Roche, later Frances Shand Kydd, married Edward John "Johnnie" Spencer in 1954. Lady Jane was born two years later.

In a statement released in the weeks before he marries Meghan Markle, the palace said Prince Harry was "keen to involve his mother's family in his wedding".

On the anniversary of her death thousands paid their respects in the British capital.

"Prince Harry and Ms Markle both feel honoured that Lady Jane will be representing her family and helping to celebrate the memory of the late Princess on the wedding day," Kensington Palace said in a statement.

Prince Harry was just 12 years old when his mother was killed in a car accident in Paris in 1996.

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The princess' tragic death came just one year after her divorce from Charles, The Prince of Wales.

The pair married in a doomed fairytale wedding in 1981.


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