Harry devotes a whole chapter of Spare to a night he and Meghan spent at Clarence Home with the King whereas they have been planning their wedding ceremony. “He wholly endorsed our need to have an orchestra relatively than an organist, and he performed an assortment of orchestras to get us within the temper.”
Meghan and the King bonded over their shared love of music (Beethoven for him, Chopin for her) throughout this planning session, Harry mentioned. “As one piece ended, he’d rapidly reload his wi-fi, start buzzing or tapping his foot to the following. He was ethereal, witty, charming, and I saved shaking my head in amazement.” Harry writes that he knew his father cherished music, however till this second, he didn’t know “he cherished it this a lot.” Harry credited Meghan for this. “[She] evoked a lot in him, qualities I’d hardly ever seen. In her presence Pa grew to become boyish. I noticed it, noticed the bond between them rising stronger, and I felt strengthened in my very own bond with him.”
The Queen gave Harry permission to maintain his beard for his wedding ceremony (to the annoyance of William, who threatened to carry Harry down and shave him if he acquired too drunk at his stag/bachelor get together):
“After all of the stress of asking Granny for permission to marry Meg, I assumed I’d by no means have the braveness to ask her for anything,” Harry writes in Spare. “And but I now dared to make one other ask: Granny, please, could I, for my wedding ceremony, preserve my beard? Not a small ask both. A beard was thought by some to be a transparent violation of protocol and long-standing norms, particularly since I used to be getting married in my Military uniform.” Harry mentioned that Meghan had by no means seen him and not using a beard, and carrying a beard helped him along with his anxiousness. When he defined this to the Queen, she mentioned that she understood, including that “her personal husband appreciated to rock a little bit of scruff every now and then.”
Harry mentioned that this annoyed his brother, who was reportedly advised to shave his personal beard when he grew one whereas on an project with Particular Forces. William was indignant that Harry went to the Queen for permission and, Harry writes, “at one level, [William] truly ordered me, because the Inheritor chatting with the Spare, to shave.” (Harry writes that the beard frustration was partially triggered as a result of he was being allowed to put on the army uniform that William wished to put on when he married Kate.)
At his stag/bachelor get together, Harry mentioned, he was afraid that if he “acquired too drunk and handed out, Willy and his mates would maintain me down and shave me.” Because it seems, that was a sound concern. “Willy advised me, explicitly, in all seriousness, that this was his plan.”
