Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reveal big detail about their wedding service
With Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding less than a week away, Kensington Palace has announced that Bishop Michael Bruce Curry will give the address at their nuptial on May 19.
Bishop Curry, who is from Chicago, Illinois, said in a statement: “The love that has brought and will bind Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle together has its source and origin in God, and is the key to life and happiness. And so we celebrate and pray for them today.”
The 27th Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, who is also Chief Pastor and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society and chair of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, will travel to Windsor to give the address at the wedding service at St. George’s Chapel.
Bishop Curry is known for his best-selling book, Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus.
“What the Church needs, what this world needs, are some Christians who are as crazy as the Lord,” he wrote. “Crazy enough to love like Jesus, to give like Jesus, to forgive like Jesus, to do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God —like Jesus. Crazy enough to dare to change the world,” he said in his book.
A royal insider told PEOPLE the royal couple and the Archbishop discussed a number of possibilities for a preacher.
Although Bishop Curry is not personally known to Harry and Meghan, they felt that since he is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (Anglican Church in the US) as well as being “a wonderful speaker and preacher, it would be highly appropriate for him to be invited to speak,” the insider said.
Besides Bishop Curry, Rt. Revd. David Conner, The Dean of Windsor, and Rt. Hon. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, will also be a part of the ceremony.
Revd. Conner will conduct Harry and Meghan’s service, while Rt. Hon. Welby, will officiate the couple’s marriage vows.