--- title: Meghan Markle Arrived at the Hotel for the Royal Wedding description: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are staying at separate hotels before the wedding canonical: https://time.com/5280740/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-18T18:15:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:54.994Z og:title: Meghan Markle Arrived at Her Hotel for the Royal Wedding og:description: Markle and Prince Harry are staying at separate hotels before the wedding og:url: https://time.com/5280740/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt992384c595813147/698930c1db2987d9ea25fb0b/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Meghan Markle Doria Ragland og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meghan Markle Arrived at Her Hotel for the Royal Wedding twitter:description: Markle and Prince Harry are staying at separate hotels before the wedding twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt992384c595813147/698930c1db2987d9ea25fb0b/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meghan Markle Just Arrived at the Cliveden House Hotel for the Royal Wedding > Sponsored content. 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While Markle and Prince Harry live together in [Nottingham Cottage](http://time.com/money/5037959/everything-we-know-about-nottingham-cottage-prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-mysterious-love-shack/), a two-bedroom home located on the grounds of [Kensington Palace](http://time.com/5279256/royal-wedding-meghan-markle-father/) in London, like many soon-to-be married couples — commoners and royals alike — they opted to spend the night before the wedding apart. Harry is staying at the Dorchester Collection’s [Coworth Park](https://www.dorchestercollection.com/en/ascot/coworth-park/) in Windsor, with his big brother and best man, Prince William. Markle and her mother, [Doria Ragland](http://time.com/5281663/meghan-markle-mother-royal-tea/), are staying at [Cliveden House Hotel](https://www.clivedenhouse.co.uk/), on the National Trust’s Cliveden Estate in Windsor. Cliveden House Hotel is known for its connection to the Profumo Affair, a 1960s scandal in which War Secretary John Profumo had an affair with a 19-year-old dancer named Christine Keeler, who he met at Cliveden. As befitting a soon-to-be duke and duchess, the hotels are both five-star estates with luxurious spas, award-winning restaurants, and in the case of Harry’s hotel views of a polo field, perfect for working off any pre-wedding jitters. > [](https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/997536144668745728) The two hotels are about a 30-minute drive (15 miles) from each other, meaning there’s very little chance that the bride and groom will run into each other before they meet at the altar in St. George’s Chapel on Saturday morning. [According to _People_](http://people.com/royals/prince-harry-meghan-markle-separate-hotels-before-royal-wedding/), Meghan and her mother will leave the hotel together on Saturday morning to make the 25-minute drive to St. George’s Chapel. There, [Prince Charles](http://time.com/5278568/thomas-markle-wedding/) will walk her part way down the aisle to [marry](http://time.com/5279726/prince-harry-meghan-markle-royal-wedding-reception-history/) Prince Harry. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5280740/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5280740/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding/"},"headline":"Meghan Markle Just Arrived at the Cliveden House Hotel for the Royal Wedding","datePublished":"2018-05-18T18:15:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:54.994Z","description":"Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are staying at separate hotels before the wedding","url":"https://time.com/5280740/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Prince Harry","royal wedding","meghan markle"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt992384c595813147/698930c1db2987d9ea25fb0b/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt992384c595813147/698930c1db2987d9ea25fb0b/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Meghan Markle Doria Ragland","caption":"Meghan Markle Doria Ragland","creditText":"Steve Parsons—AFP/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/5280740/meghan-markle-hotel-royal-wedding/","name":"Meghan Markle Just Arrived at the Cliveden House Hotel for the Royal Wedding"}}]}] ```