Prince Harry could be on course to return to UK for wedding of his 'unofficial best man'


For years, the public believed Prince Harry and Prince William acted as each other’s best man. The Duke of Sussex stood by his brother’s side as he married Kate, Princess of Wales, back in April 2011, and the Prince of Wales returned the favour as Harry married Meghan Markle in May 2018. However, in his memoir, the Duke revealed the brothers did not act as best men at each other’s wedding, instead choosing other friends to fulfil the important duty.

In his memoir, Harry revealed he actually picked his “old friend” Charlie to be best man; he also claimed William didn’t show up to drinks the night before his wedding due to “sulking”.

“I asked what was really happening,” Harry wrote. “Was he sulking because he wasn’t my best man? Was he annoyed because I had asked my old friend Charlie instead? (‘The Royal Family announced Willy was the best man as they had done with me when he and Kate got married. Did that have something to do with it?’)”

The Charlie mentioned is believed to be Charlie van Straubenzee, a school friend of the Prince’s. According to reports, Harry returned the favour at Charlie’s wedding to filmmaker Daisy Jenks in the summer of 2018.

Now, the Daily Mail’s diary editor Richard Eden has speculated that Harry may step up to the role for another one of his friends, his “unofficial best man” Jack Mann, who is engaged to Isabella Clark, the daughter of property hotshot Stephen Clark.

Speaking to the publication, Jack said he and his colleagues had been stopped at an airport in Malta. “We did not continue the journey from Malta [to Libya] on the advice of Maltese immigration to rectify our paperwork before travelling onwards,” he explained.

“The issue was resolved within five days and the United Nations has confirmed there was no breach of sanctions. They [Alma Risk] are free to deliver the training. I have visited Libya previously in my role as a private security consultant.”

Jack, who hosted the Duchess of Sussex for dinner parties at his West London home during the early days of her and Harry’s romance, is thought to have grown apart from Harry since the wedding.

Now, Jack is due to marry Isabella and Mr Eden has speculated the wedding “could be held at Isabella’s family seat in Suffolk”.

“Isabella’s home is a magnificent, crenellated, 17th-century pile, with sweeping lawns down to a river,” he wrote. “Handy for landing a helicopter, as Harry and Meghan may care to note.”



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