--- title: Royal Wedding Has a Scheduling Issue With FA Cup description: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be getting married on the same day as one of the most important competitions in English sports. canonical: https://time.com/5066188/royal-wedding-date/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-15T14:41:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:19.557Z og:title: The Royal Wedding Has a Scheduling Issue With a Sports Game og:description: Viewers will have to choose between royalty and soccer og:url: https://time.com/5066188/royal-wedding-date/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b9a3ff3e7f44aa5/6988f53ce76ad2d85663053a/meghan-markle-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Visit Nottingham og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Royal Wedding Has a Scheduling Issue With a Sports Game twitter:description: Viewers will have to choose between royalty and soccer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b9a3ff3e7f44aa5/6988f53ce76ad2d85663053a/meghan-markle-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Royal Wedding Is Going to Be on the Same Day as This Sports Event That's Kind of Big Deal > Sponsored content. 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The good news: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will marry on Saturday, May 19, 2018, according to an announcement from Kensington Palace, giving fans of the [newly-engaged royal couple](http://time.com/5039393/royal-wedding-2018-details/) a date to block off for celebration and avid ceremony-watching. The bad news: their big day falls on the same date as the 2018 FA Cup Final at Wembley, a major event in English soccer (or football, if you’re feeling Continental). The FA Cup, short for [Football Association Cup](http://www.thefa.com/competitions/thefacup), is an annual competition for English soccer teams. In fact, it’s the [oldest cup competition](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/soccers-oldest-knockout-tournament-the-english-fa%5Fus%5F58c2c448e4b0c3276fb783e6) in the world, in which popular clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal and the Tottenham Hotspurs face off in successive knockout rounds. (Arsenal won last year.) Naturally, this date conflict is making English fans unhappy. In an interesting twist, Prince Harry’s own brother — [Prince William](http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/prince-william-harry-star-wars-premiere) himself — is actually the president of the FA, and traditionally hands over the trophy to the winning team. Looks like he’ll have to eschew that particular honor this year, to his subjects’ chagrin. > [](https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/941654708661444608) > [](https://twitter.com/AA%5FRichards/status/941661733348958208) > [](https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/941656180438503424) > [](https://twitter.com/SoccerAM/status/941678548871536641) > [](https://twitter.com/SmnLlyd5/status/941679635254988800) > [](https://twitter.com/tillymintangel/status/941691682407493632) > [](https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/941666863406370816) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5066188/royal-wedding-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5066188/royal-wedding-date/"},"headline":"The Royal Wedding Is Going to Be on the Same Day as This Sports Event That's Kind of Big Deal","datePublished":"2017-12-15T14:41:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:19.557Z","description":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be getting married on the same day as one of the most important competitions in English sports.","url":"https://time.com/5066188/royal-wedding-date/","keywords":["Newsfeed","royals","royal wedding"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b9a3ff3e7f44aa5/6988f53ce76ad2d85663053a/meghan-markle-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7b9a3ff3e7f44aa5/6988f53ce76ad2d85663053a/meghan-markle-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Visit Nottingham","caption":"Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Visit Nottingham","creditText":"Samir Hussein—Samir Hussein/WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5066188/royal-wedding-date/","name":"The Royal Wedding Is Going to Be on the Same Day as This Sports Event That's Kind of Big Deal"}}]}] ```