How Lady Gabriella’s wedding will be very different to Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton’s

Lady Gabriella Windsor is the daughter of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.

She is set to marry her fiancée, Thomas Kingston, at St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, in the spring.

It is the latest in a series of royal weddings, including Meghan Markle and Princess Eugenie’s.

Now a wedding planner has told Express.co.uk Lady Gabriella’s wedding will be different to recent royal weddings when it comes to her flowers.

Bernadette Chapman, Founder of The UK Alliance of Wedding Planners and Business Coach says: “I believe Lady Gabriella will opt to use seasonal flowers.”

This was a trend roundly embraced by Meghan and Eugenie. However, her blooms with will different in another way.

Bernadette said: “In contrast to previous royal weddings I see more flowers and less foliage, think roses, peonies and even sweet peas.

“I envisage the bouquet being a shower bouquet with some foliage but also ribbon and lace trailing down.”

Bernadette Chapman is a wedding industry coach and trainer at the UK Alliance of

Wedding Planners Ltd, and has been creating weddings for clients since the launch of her company, Dream Occasions, in 2002.

She is the co-author of “Wedding Planning for Dummies” (2014).

Certain flowers have meanings, and brides and florists often thing about this when creating bouquets. Bernadette’s predictions for Lady Gabriella have some sweet meanings.

Peonies, for example, represent a happy life, good health and prosperity, according to Hitched.co.uk.

Roses signify love, of course. However, the colour is significant. Red roses represent desire, white roses purity ad pink roses joy. The sweet pea is a flower associated with the Victorian era.

Meghan Markle’s wedding flowers included lily of the valley, sweet peas, jasmine, astilbe, astrantia, myrtle and forget-me-nots.

Her small bouquet had short stems and was hand-tied. It was thought Meghan might opt for her favourite flower, peonies. However, she chose seasonal blooms.

Meghan’s flowers were heaving on the foliage, with green leaves trailing over the arches inside of St George’s Chapel.

The perfect spring look was a simple palette of green and white.

Kate Middleton, on the other hand, had a small bouquet of myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, sweet William and hyacinth.

Princess Eugenie, 29, who married Jack Brooksbank in October, had a seasonal display too. The flowers for the wedding of the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, focused on shades of red, orange and purple.

Eugenie worked on her wedding flowers with florist Rob Van Helden, who said: “It has been the greatest privilege and honour to create the flowers for Princess Eugenie and Jack, on their Wedding day.

“Her Royal Highness has been very involved from the start and has been instrumental in the autumnal theme. The whole floral design team and I wish Princess Eugenie and Jack our heartfelt congratulations and we hope they have a magical wedding day.”

Lady Gabriella’s wedding tiara may well be a piece that would be banned if gifted to the Royal Family today. 

Lady Gabriella will probably wear the the City of London tiara. Nowadays a lavish gift such at this to a member of the Royal Family could not be accepted thanks to new gift receiving protocol.

Who is Meghan Markle? Quick profile

Meghan Markle was born Rachel Meghan Markle, on August 4, 1981 to parents Doria Ragland and father Thomas Markle.

Her father was previously married to Roslyn Loveless and Meghan has two elder half sibling – sister Samantha Markle and brother Thomas Markle Junior.

Actress

Meghan’s first television appearance in the USA was in an episode of the medical drama General Hospital in 2002.

She later moved on to roles in CSI, Without a Trace and Castle along with bit parts in Hollywood films including Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me and Horrible Bosses.

Meghan was also a “briefcase girl” on Deal or No Deal – but her most famous role was as Rachel Zane in legal drama Suits, which launched in 2011.

She was written out in the finale of the seventh series when her character got married, which aired in April 2018 – just before she got married herself.

Charity and humanitarian work

Meghan Markle’s career in television has gone hand-in-hand with her support for causes close to her heart.

She wrote about the stigma around menstrual health in an article for Time magazine and was a Global Ambassador for World Vision Canada – with whom she travelled to Rwanda for the charity’s Clean Water Campaign.

And her commitment to gender equality has seen her work with the United Nations – receiving a standing ovation in 2015 for her speech to mark International Women’s Day.

Relationships

In September 2011, she wed film producer Trevor Engelson, who she began dating in 2004.

But the pair divorced two years later in August 2013, citing irreconcilable difference.

She was in a relationship with celebrity chef Cory Vitiello for almost two years, before they broke it off in 2016 but the two remain good friends.

And in June 2016, she met Prince Harry on a blind date set up by a mutual friend.

Their relationship began in October that year and just over one year later, on November 27, 2017, the pair announced their engagement.

They married on May 19, 2018 at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Meghan’s heritage

Some have claimed Meghan Markle is the first mixed-race member of the Royal Family.

Historians are still arguing about Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III.

But Meghan will be the first royal to openly embrace a mixed-race heritage.

She has written about the difficulties of being a biracial actress in Hollywood as she claims she is not black enough for some roles and not white enough for others.