{"id":205157,"date":"2018-03-04T07:25:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=205157"},"modified":"2018-03-04T07:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T12:25:33","slug":"meghan-markle-baptized-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/03\/meghan-markle-baptized-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle to be baptized this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_205160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205160\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2018\/03\/Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_Markle.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-205160\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2018\/03\/Prince_Harry_and_Meghan_Markle-575x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"575\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-205160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via Creative Commons\/Public Domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/2018030446715\/meghan-markle-baptism-details\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Details:\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/meghan-markle\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is due to be christened sometime in March in preparation for her wedding to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/tags\/prince-harry\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on 19 May. The Sunday Times reports that her baptism and confirmation will be held at Kensington Palace by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. As well as Prince Harry, Meghan\u2019s mum, Doria Ragland, and dad, Thomas Markle, are also set to fly to the UK to attend the ceremony. The baptism will see Meghan \u2013 who was raised Protestant \u2013 join the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>It is thought that Meghan had asked Justin Welby to lead the service after the pair formed a close friendship. A source told the publication: \u201cShe has formed a close bond with him. She and Harry have been doing wedding prep with him.\u201d While she doesn\u2019t need to convert in order to marry Harry, Meghan is said to have chosen to be baptized to honour the Queen\u2019s role as head of the Church or England.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/2018030446715\/meghan-markle-baptism-details\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Read on.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details:\u00a0 Meghan Markle\u00a0is due to be christened sometime in March in preparation for her wedding to\u00a0Prince Harry\u00a0on 19 May. The Sunday Times reports that her baptism and confirmation will be held at Kensington Palace by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. As well as Prince Harry, Meghan\u2019s mum, Doria Ragland, and dad, Thomas Markle, are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":205160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,27],"tags":[11202,11165,11180],"class_list":["post-205157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglicans","category-marriage","tag-anglicans","tag-bishops","tag-marriage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meghan Markle to be baptized this month<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Details:\u00a0 Meghan Markle\u00a0is due to be christened sometime in March in preparation for her wedding to\u00a0Prince Harry\u00a0on 19 May. 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