Prince Harry and Meghan Markle just celebrated their sixth anniversary – but there were problems behind the scenes involving Prince William, Princess Kate and some decor details

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary this month. But their fairytale day proved to be at the centre of a major dispute between the Sussexes and the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Harry opened up about the saga in his 2023 tell-all memoir Spare. He shared his side of events as he spoke about the breakdown in the relationship between the former ‘Fab Four’. The Duke said he felt sad that his brother and sister-in-law hadn’t bonded with his wife in the way he had hoped – and as such, the two couples decided to sit down to hash out their differences. One particular sticking point was the fact that William and Kate had reportedly switched name cards at his wedding.

Writing about one meeting, which took place in Kensington Palace in June 2018, Harry said: “For our part, we chipped in that we weren’t too pleased when Willy and Kate switched place cards and changed seats at our wedding. We’d followed the American tradition, placing couples next to each other, but Willy and Kate didn’t like that tradition, so their table was the only one where spouses were apart.

“They insisted it wasn’t them, it was someone else. And they said we’d done the same thing at Pippa’s wedding. We hadn’t. Much as we’d wanted to. We’d been separated by a huge flower arrangement between us, and though we’d desperately wanted to sit together, we hadn’t done a thing about it. None of this airing of grievances was doing us any good, I felt. We weren’t getting anywhere.”