--- title: Meghan Markle Had a Something Blue for Her Wedding Gown description: The something blue was a secret and sweet tribute to Prince Harry canonical: https://time.com/5404448/meghan-markle-something-blue/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-24T13:59:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:01.757Z og:title: Meghan Markle Had a Romantic ’Something Blue’ at Her Wedding og:description: The something blue was a secret and sweet tribute to Prince Harry og:url: https://time.com/5404448/meghan-markle-something-blue/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30647ed4c0b9a28f/6989312de76ad24d80632165/prince-harry-meghan-markle-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3504 og:image:height: 1971 og:image:alt: prince-harry-meghan-markle-net-worth.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meghan Markle Had a Romantic ’Something Blue’ at Her Wedding twitter:description: The something blue was a secret and sweet tribute to Prince Harry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30647ed4c0b9a28f/6989312de76ad24d80632165/prince-harry-meghan-markle-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Definitely Missed the Romantic ’Something Blue’ Meghan Markle Wore at the Royal Wedding > Sponsored content. 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Jane Barlow - PA Images/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 24, 2018 1:59 PM UTC Like many brides, when [Meghan Markle](http://time.com/5280717/meghan-markle-royal-family-prince-harry-windsor-daisy-goodwin/) walked down the aisle of St. George’s Chapel to marry Prince Harry, she abided by the rules dictated in the classic wedding saying wearing something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. In a recent interview, Markle revealed that her “something blue” was a sweet tribute to her very first date with her future husband. In a video clip from the new documentary _Queen of the World_, which will air on HBO in the U.S., Markle revisited her wedding day and was reunited with [the Givenchy gown](http://time.com/money/5278447/meghan-markle-wedding-dress-cost/) for the first time since the royal wedding. > [](https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1043803451409539072) In the interview, Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, explains how [her veil](http://time.com/5245809/meghan-markle-royal-wedding-dress/), designed by Claire Waight Keller, paid tribute to the to each of the 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth of the United Kingdom, through flowers embroidered on the trim of the veil and shared a very sweet—and hidden—detail about the veil. Tucked somewhere inside her stunning wedding veil was a secret “something blue”. “Did you see it? The piece of blue fabric that’s stitched inside? It’s my something blue,” Markle explains in the clip. “It’s fabric from the dress that I wore on our first date.” It’s a romantic detail that brides across the world will undoubtedly be borrowing on their own wedding days (if they have foresight to wear something blue on their first date.) For more hidden details about the event, the gown, and the Duchess, tune into the documentary _Queen of the World_ debuts Oct. 1 on HBO. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5404448/meghan-markle-something-blue/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5404448/meghan-markle-something-blue/"},"headline":"You Definitely Missed the Romantic ’Something Blue’ Meghan Markle Wore at the Royal Wedding","datePublished":"2018-09-24T13:59:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:01.757Z","description":"The something blue was a secret and sweet tribute to Prince Harry","url":"https://time.com/5404448/meghan-markle-something-blue/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Royal Family","royals","Prince Harry","royal wedding","meghan markle"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt30647ed4c0b9a28f/6989312de76ad24d80632165/prince-harry-meghan-markle-net-worth.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/blt30647ed4c0b9a28f/6989312de76ad24d80632165/prince-harry-meghan-markle-net-worth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"prince-harry-meghan-markle-net-worth.jpg","caption":"Royal wedding prince harry meghan markle leaving the chapel","creditText":"Jane Barlow - PA Images/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/5404448/meghan-markle-something-blue/","name":"You Definitely Missed the Romantic ’Something Blue’ Meghan Markle Wore at the Royal Wedding"}}]}] ```