--- title: Rihanna Reveals If She Is Going to the Royal Wedding description: Rihanna may be a queen to her fans, but when it comes to the royal wedding, you can apparently count her out. canonical: https://time.com/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-14T16:14:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:51.157Z og:title: Rihanna Responds Hilariously to This Royal Wedding Question og:description: Did Rih make Harry and Meghan's guest list? og:url: https://time.com/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccc36b985c9ea1e1/698930557cdbacded5d5cdb0/rihanna-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Rihanna-Prince-Harry og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rihanna Responds Hilariously to This Royal Wedding Question twitter:description: Did Rih make Harry and Meghan's guest list? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccc36b985c9ea1e1/698930557cdbacded5d5cdb0/rihanna-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rihanna Had a Hilarious Response When Asked If She Was Going to the Royal Wedding > Sponsored content. 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Rihanna and Prince Harry attend the 'Man Aware' event held by the Barbados National HIV/AIDS Commission on the eleventh day of an official visit on December 1, 2016 in Bridgetown, Barbados. Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 14, 2018 4:14 PM UTC [Rihanna](http://time.com/money/5271495/rihanna-net-worth-fenty/) may be a queen to her fans, but when it comes to the [royal wedding](http://time.com/5218966/royal-wedding-etiquette/), you can apparently count her out. During a recent interview with _Access Hollywood_, the [Savage X Fenty](http://time.com/5273996/rihanna-savage-fenty-reactions/) founder was asked whether she was on the guest list for the May 19 nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle—a question that elicited a hilarious response from Rih. “Why would you think I’m invited?” she replied, prompting her interviewer to remind her that she met Prince Harry during his 2016 visit to Barbados. “You met me, you think you’re coming to my wedding? Am I coming to yours?” Rih even took it one step further by revealing that she didn’t even know the wedding was happening this week. “So is that really coming up? Like soon or something?” she asked. “See, I need to stay on the Internet more.” Watch the clip below. > [](https://twitter.com/accessonline/status/995016603703037952) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/"},"headline":"Rihanna Had a Hilarious Response When Asked If She Was Going to the Royal Wedding","datePublished":"2018-05-14T16:14:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:51.157Z","description":"Did Rih make Harry and Meghan's guest list?","url":"https://time.com/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/","keywords":["Newsfeed","royals","Rihanna","royal wedding"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccc36b985c9ea1e1/698930557cdbacded5d5cdb0/rihanna-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltccc36b985c9ea1e1/698930557cdbacded5d5cdb0/rihanna-prince-harry.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rihanna-Prince-Harry","caption":"Rihanna and Prince Harry attend the 'Man Aware' event","creditText":"Chris Jackson - Pool/Getty Images","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/5276362/rihanna-royal-wedding/","name":"Rihanna Had a Hilarious Response When Asked If She Was Going to the Royal Wedding"}}]}] ```