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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce wedding date

It will be a spring wedding on May 19, 2018.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attends the Terrance Higgins Trust World AIDS Day charity fair at Nottingham Contemporary on December 1, 2017 in Nottingham, England.

A date has been set for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding: May 19, 2018.

Kensington Palace tweeted the announcement on Friday morning.

Today's announcement follows earlier confirmation of the month of the wedding and its location at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. pic.twitter.com/7pgdRM90Na

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) December 15, 2017

Prince Harry's communications secretary, Jason Knauf, previously announced the wedding's month and location. The ceremony will be held at St. George's Chapel at the Windsor Castle.

St. George's, the 15th-century chapel where the couple will wed, is more intimate than Westminster Abbey, where Harry's older brother, William, married Kate Middleton in 2011.

Knauf said Windsor "is a very special place for Prince Harry," and that he and Markle have regularly spent time there since they began dating about a year and a half ago.

The couple announced their engagement on November 27, lifting the secrecy that had shrouded their 18-month romance, revealing they met on a blind date, bonded during a camping trip under the stars in Botswana and that Harry proposed over a roast chicken dinner at their London home, getting down on one knee to pop the question.

Speaking just hours after the couple's engagement was announced by palace officials acting on behalf of Prince Charles, Harry said he was thrilled when she said yes, and he placed an engagement ring of his own design on her finger that included two diamonds that had belonged to his mother, Princess Diana, set alongside a large central diamond from Botswana.

"Just an amazing surprise," said the 36-year-old Markle, an American actress known for her role in the TV legal drama "Suits." ''It was so sweet and natural and very romantic."

Harry —fifth in line for the British throne — said he hopes to start a family after the couple marries in May.

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