--- title: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Don't Want Wedding Gifts description: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are requesting donations to a number of charities of their choice in lieu of gifts for their May 18 wedding. canonical: https://time.com/5233117/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding-gifts/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-09T15:07:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:48.942Z og:title: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Don't Want Wedding Gifts og:description: They've selected a number of charities to receive donations og:url: https://time.com/5233117/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding-gifts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Don't Want Wedding Gifts twitter:description: They've selected a number of charities to receive donations twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Asking for Donations to These Charities Instead of Wedding Gifts > Sponsored content. 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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make international headlines every week as details emerge about their fairytale engagement and upcoming royal wedding. But one thing no one knows for certain is what the royal couple's combined net worth will be once th_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 9, 2018 3:07 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 9, 2018 3:07 PM UTC Even if you _did_ make the cut for the [highly-secretive guest list](http://time.com/5210945/prince-harry-meghan-markle-royal-wedding-invitation/) of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry for their upcoming [May 18 wedding](http://time.com/5039393/royal-wedding-2018-details/), don’t worry about checking their online gift registry. The couple has decided to eschew the traditional gifting of kitchen and home decorations, instead asking for donations to charities of their choice. “The couple have personally chosen seven charities which represent a range of issues that they are passionate about, including sport for social change, women’s empowerment, conservation, the environment, homelessness, HIV and the Armed Forces,” [Kensington Palace explained](https://www.royal.uk/wedding-charity-donations), adding that the couple do not have official relationships with the charities they’ve chosen. These causes include Chiva Projects, an organization helping kids dealing with AIDS; Crisis U.K., the national charity for homelessness; Corporal Scotty, a group for children of the armed forces; youth sports charity Street Games; the ocean conservation group Surfers Against Sewage; and Wilderness U.K., which gives urban youth access to the great outdoors. They also selected the Myna Mahila Foundation, which assists in empowering women in Mumbai slums with access to professional growth education and menstrual products. Markle has a personal connection to this one: She visited Mumbai and Delhi just last year, [and wrote about](http://time.com/4694568/meghan-markle-period-stigma/) her eye-opening experience for TIME interacting with the women she met. “When we empower girls hungry for education, we cultivate women who are emboldened to effect change within their communities and globally. If that is our dream for them, then the promise of it must begin with us. Period,” she wrote at the time. > [](https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/983308877486837760) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5233117/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding-gifts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5233117/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding-gifts/"},"headline":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Asking for Donations to These Charities Instead of Wedding Gifts","datePublished":"2018-04-09T15:07:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:02:48.942Z","description":"They've selected a number of charities to receive donations","url":"https://time.com/5233117/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding-gifts/","keywords":["Newsfeed","royals","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/5233117/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding-gifts/","name":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Asking for Donations to These Charities Instead of Wedding Gifts"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Royally Rich. 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