This is not a drill. Oprah just rocked up to Harry and Meghan's wedding

It doesn't get any better than this.
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Rachel Thompson
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This is not a drill. Oprah just rocked up to Harry and Meghan's wedding
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OK, deep breaths everyone. Deep, deep breaths. This is not a drill.

Oprah Winfrey — a.k.a. queen of the whole damn world— just rocked up at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding. And, yes, nothing in life will ever measure up to this moment.

As guests begin to arrive at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, one or two familiar faces could be spotted among the throng of attendees.

Idris Elba and Oprah Winfrey arrived at the same time.

Get a load of Oprah's hat.

Now, as royal etiquette expert William Hanson told Mashable, royal protocol dictates that: "The more important you are, the later you turn up." 

Bearing in mind we still have two more hours to go until the ceremony, who knows who else could show up? BEYONCÉ?

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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