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In an interview with WELT and other newspapers of the European newspaper association LENA, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, spoke about the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, which he carried out in 2018.
In it, he also commented on a statement by Meghan Markle in an interview with Oprah Winfrey - and contradicted the Duchess.
Meghan had revealed in the much-noticed interview that she and Prince Harry had married on a small scale three days before their royal wedding in May 2018.
"Nobody knows, but we called the archbishop," said Meghan.
“We said: This spectacle is for the world.
We want our bond between us.
The marriage vows that hang framed in our room are just the two of us in the garden with the Archbishop of Canterbury. "
In an interview with WELT, Welby classified this statement, which had already turned out to be wrong through the official wedding certificate.
“The legal wedding was that Saturday,” said Welby.
He personally signed the wedding certificate, which is a legal document.
"I would have committed a crime if I had signed something that was wrong." However, the clergyman points out that there had previously been a "series of private and pastoral meetings" with Harry and Meghan.
Justin Welby, 65, has been Archbishop of Canterbury since 2013
Source: pa / empics / Kirsty O'Connor
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Welby did not want to reveal anything about the content of the meeting: "
If you ever talk to a priest, you can expect that conversation to be private. "