Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced they are engaged and will marry early next year.
And Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton were among the celebrities sharing their excitement at the news of a Royal wedding, after Clarence House’s official announcement on Monday morning.
The This Morning presenter led the charge on social media, posting, ‘Soooo exciting… congratulations!’
Her best pal and Celebrity Juice co-host Fearne Cotton shared a hand-drawn biro sketch of a crown, taking an artistic approach to celebrating the news.
Loose Women presenter Andrea McLean shared, ‘So excited for them!!!!, while Kate Garraway posted,l ‘Wonderful news! Congratulations to them both #RoyalEngagement’.
A host of reality star also chimed in, with Casey Batchelor enthusing, ‘Love that Prince Harry and Megan have got engaged Hottest Royal couple ever.’
Vicky Pattison – who got engaged herself earlier this year – posted: ‘Eeeeeekkkkk!! Have you all heard the good news?! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged!!! Yay!!! Omg.. Imagine the BABIES!!! Too cute!!’
The couple will appear together on national TV in the UK for the first time this evening to discuss their engagement and whirlwind relationship of 16 months.
Harry, 33, who revealed a year ago he had fallen for the actress after a four to six month secret relationship, proposed to Meghan, 36, in London earlier this month.
Royal protocol dictated that fifth in line to the throne Harry had to ask his grandmother the Queen for permission to marry and she agreed in the month where she celebrated her own 70th wedding anniversary.
In a statement Her Majesty and Prince Philip said they are ‘delighted for the couple and wish them every happiness’ and this morning huge crowds of tourists and royal fans gathered outside Buckingham Palace.
Harry and his American fiancee, who divorced her first husband in 2013, will move into Nottingham Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace next door to his brother William and sister-in-law Kate.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge said in a joint statement: ‘We are very excited for Harry and Meghan. It has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together’. The boys’ father Prince Charles said he was ‘thrilled’ and ‘very happy indeed’ for them.
Harry also asked Meghan’s parents Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland, who divorced when their daughter was six, for her hand in marriage before popping the question a few weeks ago, it emerged today.
They said: ‘Our daughter has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents’.
Harry and Meghan have not said where they will marry but most senior royals marry at Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral or the chapel at Windsor Castle. Sources have said it is likely to be a church wedding.
But they are likely to wait until Prince William and Kate have their third child, which is due in April.