Kirsty Young hails Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s change in wedding protocol
The BBC presenter will be fronting coverage of the wedding on May 19.
Kirsty Young has praised Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for their approach to their wedding, saying it is “an interesting change in protocol”.
BBC presenter Young, along with Dermot O’Leary and Huw Edwards, will spearhead the BBC’s coverage on May 19 – with several other BBC presenters who will be positioned around Windsor.
Young, 49, told Radio Times: “It’s putting the mother of the bride at the centre. The way they are organising it feels creative, it feels modern and contemporary.”
“They’re showing a rather different way of being royal. Of course you want them to be glamorous and special, but they’re doing that in a very modern way.
“They are both in their 30s and have lived a life, which makes them much more typical of most couples these days – although of course they are entirely untypical in other ways.”
The Desert Island Discs host, who worked on a BBC documentary about the couple shortly after they announced their engagement, said they are a couple “very much in love”.
“You get the sense that they understand the giant step they are taking.
“They have their feet firmly planted on the ground. And that is part of what has made people warm to them.”
The full interview is in this week’s Radio Times.