Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has given her official seal of approval for grandson Prince Harry to marry his American actress fiancee Meghan Markle. Buckingham Palace released the ornate ‘Instrument of Consent’ today to mark nearly a week before the couple are to be married at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle next Saturday.
The document, signed by the 92-year-old monarch earlier, incorporates some symbols of America onto traditional vellum to represent the bride’s origins. The first six people in line to the British throne must seek the Queen’s formal approval to marry, without which Prince Harry — the sixth in line — would have been disqualified from line of succession.