Here are the main events during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding day, and their timings.
6pm AEST
Members of the public who were invited by Harry and Meghan to watch the wedding from outside Windsor Castle will arrive.
6:30-8pm AEST
Wedding guests arrive at the Castle’s famous Round Tower by coach and enter the chapel through the South Door and take their seats.
8:20pm AEST
Members of the royal family begin to arrive and enter via the Galilee Porch, some on foot others by car.
8:45pm AEST
Harry and his best man, the Duke of Cambridge, will arrive at the West Steps of St George’s Chapel West steps.
8:55-8:59 AEST
Possibly around this time Harry and his brother the Duke of Cambridge arrive at the Chapel’s West Steps, probably on foot walking past the thousands of spectators invited into the grounds of the castle. The moment will give Harry the chance to acknowledge the 200 representatives from charities he is associated with gathered in the Horseshoe Cloister at the bottom of the steps.
9:00pm AEST
Ms Markle arrives at the Chapel’s West Steps by car, from her overnight accommodation, with some of her bridesmaids and pageboys. She will start her journey, which will take her past some of the crowds in the Long Walk, with her mother Doria Ragland – but when the car stops at the castle her mother will exchange places with he bridesmaids and pageboys. Ms Ragland will enter the chapel by the Galilee Porch and at some point Meghan’s father Thomas Markle will have arrived at the same entrance and make his way to the West Door where he will meet his daughter before the ceremony begins.
9:05pm AEST
Service starts.
10:00pm AEST
Service ends and the newlyweds emerge at the West Steps of the Chapel. They will be waved off on their carriage procession through Windsor by members of both families. The congregation will file out of the chapel to see the newlyweds leave before heading to St George’s Hall for the lunchtime reception hosted by the Queen.
10:05pm AEST
Possibly around this time the carriage procession through the streets of Windsor begins taking 25 minutes.
4:00am AEST
Bride and groom departing Windsor castle for the evening reception Frogmore House hosted by the Prince of Wales.
To see exactly how and where you can watch the royal wedding live from Australia, see here.
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