"When Harry met Meghan, and a blind date led to an Anglo-American engagement, I found myself squeezed between a cynical sibling, a cheering wife, apathetic friends and the insatiable global appetite for royal wedding stories," writes Joe Jackson, a journalist based in London.

"As a (mere commoner) Brit just back from nearly a decade living in the US, and myself recently married to an American, this unlikely transatlantic pairing piqued my interest more than any previous Windsor family nuptials."