On Saturday, Prince Harry will be guest of honour at the wedding in SA of his cousin George McCorquodale to Bianca Moore.
|||London - On Saturday, Prince Harry will be guest of honour at the wedding in South Africa of his cousin George McCorquodale to Bianca Moore.
McCorquodale met Moore when they worked at one of the country’s schools.
The wedding promises to be a magnificent occasion at Netherwood in KwaZulu-Natal.
McCorquodale’s parents are Neil and Lady Sarah McCorquodale (née Spencer), who is the eldest sister of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Harry, who will remain in South Africa for a few weeks to work on conservation projects dear to his heart, may be hoping for slightly more than just a decent slice of wedding cake.
Recently, he reflected ruefully on the instant and intense attention endured by any girl he is photographed with.
“If I even talk to a girl, that person is then suddenly my wife,” he said, adding, in the days that follow, people go knocking on her door. It seems his cousin George - at 31, just a couple of months younger than Harry and, like him, an inheritor of the Spencer ginger curls - is doing his utmost to give him some breathing space.
The wedding website alerts guests the couple have “chosen for our wedding to be an adult-only occasion” and politely but pointedly states: “Please note: no personal photos or cellphone photography allowed.”
The bond between the cousins is unsurprising.
As children, McCorquodale and his sisters, Emily and Celia, were notably close to Diana and her sons, joining the princess and the boys for family holidays on Necker, Sir Richard Branson’s private island.
The affinity appears to endure in adulthood - in the section of the wedding website entitled “our story”, McCorquodale describes himself as “a naughty boy from England”.
A description to which Harry, too, would surely like to lay claim.
Daily Mail