Melanie “Mel B” Brown is planning a wedding fit for royalty!
The Spice Girls member, 48, revealed that she and fiancé Rory McPhee will tie the knot at St Paul’s Cathedral in London – the same church where Princess Diana and then-Prince Charles tied the knot in July 1981.
During an appearance on Monday’s episode Today with Hoda and Jenna, Brown explained that she and McPhee were able to land the coveted spot thanks to her royal connections. “Because I have an MBE [Member of the Order of the British Empire]”, she explained. “So I got an MBE for all my charity work that I’ve done and raising awareness of all that stuff.”
Brown noted that receiving an MBE in 2022 was a moment for me. “Actually Prince William gave me my little badge of honor. And it’s quite a big deal. I didn’t realize how big a deal it was until I started reading about it and then I got really nervous,” she said, recalling the ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
Mel B jokes about the problem with the ‘big slit’ in her dress when Prince William awarded her an MBE
Princess Diana and Prince Charles on their wedding day in 1981. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty
She said William, 41, even took a moment to joke about her pop star past. “So when he gave me my medal, he said, ‘No Spice Girls?’ ” she recalled asking her bandmates Emma Bunton, Melanie “Mel C” Chisholm and Geri Halliwell-Horner and former member Victoria Beckham.
“It was really nice. That’s why I’m getting married in the same church as Princess Diana,” she added.
Mel B says she hopes to marry in the same cathedral where Princess Diana wed: ‘She’s waiting for them’
Back in September, Brown shared an update on her wedding planning during an appearance on Australian radio station 2DayFM, saying she was “still waiting to hear back from St Paul’s” about her request to hold her wedding at the iconic domed cathedral, one of London’s most famous landmarks .
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“Because I have an MBE, I can get married in the same place Princess Diana got married in, so we’ve put all our forms in and we’re waiting for them to give us a date,” she said at the time, explaining why she wanted a traditional setting for her ceremony.
“I will do it properly, according to the rules, in the church,” she continued.
Brown revealed in October 2022 that she and McPhee, a hairdresser, had become engaged after dating for three years. She shared the news of the engagement on a British program Celebrity glasses caserecounting how McPhee popped the question during a “romantic” getaway in Berkshire.
“He said, ‘I love you, you’re my best friend and I want to spend the rest of my life with you,'” she recalled, adding: “There were rose petals everywhere, a bonfire, the hotel – which was the Cliveden. It was very romantic. I love flowers.”
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