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The next royal wedding at Windsor Castle is happening today

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From Cosmopolitan

You think you're knackered from how busy the past year has been? Think how St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle is feeling.

Last year, the chapel saw two royal weddings - Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's in May, and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's in October - but there's no rest for the wicked, as the venue is playing host to a third royal wedding TODAY.

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In September 2018, Lady Gabriella Windsor, a cousin of Prince William and Harry, announced her engagement. The royal (who is the daughter of Prince Michael of Kent, first cousin of the Queen, if your brain can handle that level of family-tree information) is marrying Thomas Kingston, who has his very own (non-blood) relation to the royal family.

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Tom dated Pippa Middleton back in 2011, around the time her sister Kate married into the royal family, interestingly enough. The couple ended their relationship after a few months, but because we're talking about respectable people here, nobody dicked anyone around by the looks of it and the pair remained friends. In fact, Tom and Lady Gabriella (known as Ella) even attended Pippa's wedding to James Matthews in May 2017.

Anyway, there is a link to St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, and it's not just Lady Gabriella's surname. Buckingham Palace confirmed in December that Gabriella and Tom will marry in the chapel we've come to know (very well) and love (very much) in spring 2019... and here we are.

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Photo credit: Getty Images

The service takeS place today, on May 18, the very same weekend Meghan and Harry wed in the chapel just last year. But that's more or less where the similarities will stop; Gabriella and Tom's wedding will be much smaller than the previous two nuptials, and it won't feature a carriage ride through Windsor, reports HELLO!.

As for guests, there's likely to be plenty from the high society crowd in attendance, however it's unlikely that Prince William and Kate Middleton will attend their cousin's wedding. One of the Duke of Cambridge's responsibilities is President of the FA Cup, and as part of that role Kensington Palace recently confirmed he will be attending the 2019 FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Watford, which also takes place today. The match is at 5pm at Wembley Stadium, and although we don't know exactly what time proceedings will kick off for Gabriella and Tom back in Windsor, it's likely there'll be a clash.

Meghan and Harry, meanwhile, are navigating the early days of new parenthood, so it's pretty unlikely they'll turn up, despite the venue being so close to their new home.

But there will be photographers from the press at the wedding, it's thought, which means we can all look forward to seeing another royal kiss on those glorious steps this afternoon. And that's a nice prospect, isn't it?

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