Royal Photographer Calls Prince Harry and Meghan’s Wedding ‘Miserable’ and the ‘Worst’ He’s Ever Covered
One longtime photographer who’s covered Britain’s royal family for decades is revealing why doing Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s wedding back in 2018 was the “worst.”
Arthur Edwards has been with The Sun newspaper since 1977. In that time, he has photographed members of the family on hundreds of international tours, at seven weddings, and at five funerals including that of the late Queen Elizabeth II. But he found the day of the now-Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding to be particularly “miserable.” Here’s why.
Why the photographer describes the Sussexes’ wedding as ‘miserable’ and the ‘worst’
When Prince Harry and Meghan tied the knot on May 19, 2018, Edwards was one of the members of the press who covered the wedding at St. George’s Chapel.
“The day was a miserable day,” Edwards revealed in an interview with The Sun. “I can tell you now it was the worst royal wedding I ever did. Because Harry was determined to keep the newspapers away from it as much as possible.
“Everything was done on long lenses. I had [an] 800 millimeter lens photographing the guests arriving. The photographers they engaged for the job [were] five feet away. It was just hopeless.”
Edwards said he and others believed that the whole thing was orchestrated on purpose to make them feel “unwelcome,” and it worked.
“I felt so [unwelcome],” he admitted. “It wasn’t just me. It was the whole of the British press, in many ways were badly treated.”
Edwards claims working with Harry became unpleasant after the prince met Meghan
This isn’t the only time Edwards described working with Harry and Meghan as “miserable.” He said that over the years he had a good relationship with the prince, but that changed after Harry and Meghan got together.
“Harry’s hostility to the British tabloid press amazes me. He loved to use the press when it suited him — and it often did … Harry was a photographer’s dream,” Edwards recalled in a column for The Sun. “He was helpful and would acknowledge your presence when he saw us working.
“This young man — the most popular member of the royal family among Sun readers — could do little wrong. And if he did wrong, we forgave him … Suddenly, one day in Manchester after he had met Meghan, everything changed. He could not even look at me, let alone talk to me. He just got in the car and drove off.”
Edwards later opted not to work with the duke and duchess anymore because of how miserable those jobs with them became. During an appearance on News.com.au’s I’ve Got News For You podcast, the longtime royal photographer shared: “[Harry] met Meghan and then he became very very distant and he became almost, well, it was miserable. I just find it very depressing with them. They just hated the media, and it was miserable.
“In fact, in the end, I didn’t do Harry’s tours. I didn’t do Harry’s tour of Australia, not with Meghan. I didn’t do Harry’s tour of South Africa with Meghan. I ducked out of them and sort of went with Charles to New Zealand and you know places like that.”
