Meeting someone does not make you my best friend forever, I meet people all the time and they do not come home with me ever......so if there is a problem with that then it is not my problem.
I have met tons of important people down to a former president when I worked in politics and even ambassadors, movie stars, all in another life time, not one of them became my BFF.......
I just don't get this attitude that a former president must be invited to the wedding as if he is the star of the wedding.........so what if Harry and Obama worked together for a charity, no big deal, it does not make or break relationship ever. Harry has worked most of his adult life for charities and knows most of them on a first name basis......does that make all of them his own personal friends.......don't think so! He needs those high powered, high profile people to come to help him for they have the bucks/money and they can help his cause. Why the total outrage if a former president is not invited by some here, who is going to be blamed if the former president does not get an invite......done with this conversation period.
I think that is the root of the issue..... in your mind the only people invited to a wedding fall in two categories: either friends or family. And us suggesting the Obamas attend, makes them friends.
No one is suggesting they are friends
Simply colleagues.
If you are having a small intimate wedding, family and friends would be invited. But when you have a large wedding, you often invite colleagues. Look at the Cambridge wedding. Yes there were people they had to invite, which wont be at Harry's, like commonwealth heads, politicians and many foreign royals. But there were also people from other aspects of their lives, not just their friends and family
-William's commanding officers in the military and others like the admiral of the submarine service which he was commodore of
-their former landlord in Scotland
-celebrities like the Beckhams who he knew through charity work
None of these would be considered friends. Celebrities like the Beckhams he would have met on occasion at events.
So suggesting Harry and Meghan would invite co-workers and colleagues doesn't seem a stretch.
Would you be shocked if suits actors were invited? If not, how are the Obamas or any other people Harry has worked with any different?
Besides family (if no kids but bridal about 100 guests likely) as well as broad spectrum of friends and spouses, still plenty of room for colleagues, and representatives from charities and more.
Those invited to the evening party will likely just be friends and family.
Isn't she called simply Lady Fellowes rather than Baroness Jane Fellowes ?
Lady Jane Fellowes, Baroness Fellowes. But correct, not Baroness Jane, as we would not refer to someone as Duchess Kate.
Suggesting that Harry's aunt might do a reading? Why is that obscure? By all accounts Harry and William have a relationship with their mother's sisters.
Not obscure.
Simply seems to some way too much emphasis is being placed on 'to honor Diana he should.....'. Their choice of a person to read should be based on someone who they are close to, and who they want part of their day. If that is one of his Aunts, that is great, but should choose it because of his relationship with that Aunt. Not with honoring Diana.
