--- title: Meghan Markle Meme Goes Viral at 2018 Royal Wedding description: Meghan Markle's face after becoming the newly minted Duchess of Sussexx has become a hilarious royal wedding meme. canonical: https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-20T13:48:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:38.766Z og:title: Meghan Gave Us the Biggest Meme of the 2018 Royal Wedding og:description: "Me when one of my zany schemes finally pays off" og:url: https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d873181899c70e7/698930e64ee26276af311db2/harry-megan-royal-wedding-kiss-windsor-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Prince Harry Marries Ms. Meghan Markle - Procession og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meghan Gave Us the Biggest Meme of the 2018 Royal Wedding twitter:description: "Me when one of my zany schemes finally pays off" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d873181899c70e7/698930e64ee26276af311db2/harry-megan-royal-wedding-kiss-windsor-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Only Meghan Could Give Us the Biggest Meme of the 2018 Royal Wedding ## Video: This Video Is No Longer Available [Watch (HLS stream): This Video Is No Longer Available](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8) (0:10)  _Published 2026-06-23. For many, it was the ideal freeze frame_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 20, 2018 1:48 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 20, 2018 1:48 PM UTC On Saturday, [Meghan](http://time.com/5284390/meghan-markle-curtsy/), Duchess of Sussex finally gave people across the world countless real images to go with the [fairy tale the public imagined](http://time.com/5283570/royal-wedding-celebrities/). But another thing came out of this [blessed union](http://time.com/5283649/prince-harry-meghan-markle-altar/), an excellent [meme](http://time.com/5283734/royal-wedding-page-boy/) of her face. As the happy couple set out to depart from St. George’s Chapel in the horse-drawn carriage, cameras captured the newly minted royal’s smile at a moment when Prince Harry had momentarily taken his eyes off of her. This was all the internet needed to go wild with all manner of captions for the snapshot that took the liberty of imagining the latest addition to the royal squad’s inner thoughts. For many, it was the ideal freeze frame. “Me when one of my zany schemes finally pays off,” one user wrote. See below for a selection of memes of Meghan’s carriage smile. > [](https://twitter.com/JakubKrupa/status/997823808370348032) > [](https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/997822869106249728) > [](https://twitter.com/oureric/status/997822519838236672) > [](https://twitter.com/realmonaghan/status/997883444590927872) > [](https://twitter.com/danish%5Fspeakx/status/997894625934348288) > [](https://twitter.com/alloveranthony/status/997829743922860032) > [](https://twitter.com/JamzLdnKmt/status/997825864631975936) That’s not the only Meghan royal wedding meme that made the rounds Saturday as millions watched the fanfare. Many took to Twitter to share a throwback picture of young Meghan outside Buckingham Palace as a tourist to note that one can go from a visitor to Duchess, a full-time palace regular. Her marriage opened up all sorts of possibilities for the rest of us. > [](https://twitter.com/Ed%5F7991/status/997791483934793729) > [](https://twitter.com/curatedbymike/status/997826041694621696) Elsewhere, the duo’s look of surprise was another inspirational shot. > [](https://twitter.com/hrtbps/status/997839841219022849) > [](https://twitter.com/guacamomole/status/997892190469844993) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/"},"headline":"Only Meghan Could Give Us the Biggest Meme of the 2018 Royal Wedding","datePublished":"2018-05-20T13:48:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:38.766Z","description":"For many, it was the ideal freeze frame","url":"https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","royal wedding"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d873181899c70e7/698930e64ee26276af311db2/harry-megan-royal-wedding-kiss-windsor-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d873181899c70e7/698930e64ee26276af311db2/harry-megan-royal-wedding-kiss-windsor-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Prince Harry Marries Ms. Meghan Markle - Procession","caption":"Prince Harry Marries Ms. Meghan Markle - Procession","creditText":"WPA 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/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/","name":"Only Meghan Could Give Us the Biggest Meme of the 2018 Royal Wedding"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"For many, it was the ideal freeze frame","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5284818/meghan-royal-wedding-meme/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```