The Gist

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent four days in Australia last week, arriving on April 14 and departing on April 17.

• On her final day Down Under, the Duchess of Sussex gave a bride-to-be some unexpected advice ahead of her wedding.

• Fascinatingly, 30 years ago, Princess Diana had advice of her own to give a bride in Sydney—though the tone was admittedly quite different from Meghan’s offering.

While Meghan Markle was in Australia last week for a four-day visit with husband Prince Harry, she gave a bride poignant advice ahead of her wedding.

Just one month ahead of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s eighth wedding anniversary on May 19, Meghan said in a clip shared to Instagram Stories on April 23 that the marriage was more important than the wedding itself.

“Ellie, I’m here with your dad,” Meghan said in the clip, which, based off of what the As Ever founder was wearing, appeared to be filmed on April 17 when she and Harry were in Sydney. “I just wanted to say congratulations on your wedding. Enjoy the wedding, but it’s more about the marriage.”

“Have a wonderful, beautiful marriage and a lifetime of love,” Meghan continued, before adding, “Sending you love all over the world. Your dad is awesome,” as she pointed to the man next to her. She blew a kiss to the camera as the clip ended.

Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding at St. George’s Chapel was attended by roughly 600 people and watched by people around the world, yet they sought to make it feel close-knit.

“A great level of detail went into the planning of our wedding day,” Meghan said in a recording for the Windsor Castle exhibit “A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex” (per People). “We knew how large the scale of the event would be, so in making choices that were really personal and meaningful, it could make the whole experience feel intimate.”

Meghan’s wedding hairdresser Serge Normant said that Meghan had “no nerves” on the morning of her wedding, adding, “If [they] were there, they didn’t show. She was very happy, very excited.”

“She was calm and chatty,” Normant added. “She was very happy, and it was a beautiful morning—the perfect morning to get married.”

Interestingly, on her own visit to Sydney, Australia in 1996, Harry’s mother Princess Diana gave a bride some cheeky advice, according to Edward White’s book Dianaworld: An Obsession. That year also doubled as the year her divorce from Prince Charles was finalized after 15 tumultuous years of marriage (and four years of separation).

While visiting Sydney that November—three months after the divorce was finalized in August—“Diana was in the back of a car in Sydney when she spotted a wedding congregation on the steps of a nearby church,” White wrote.

“As the car drove past, she wound down her window and shouted at the bride, ‘Don’t do it!’” he added.