Many fans packed Windsor for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018. However, according to the Mirror, due to royal protocol and little-known rules, many gifts had to be returned.

For perhaps understandable reasons - security being the most important - members of the royal family are not allowed to accept gifts brought by the public to meet the royal family in person, whether for a royal wedding, a royal tour, or a royal engagement. Instead, according to an official statement issued before the wedding, relatives wishing to send gifts are to send them to Kensington Palace, where Harry and Meghan's offices were located at the time.

"The reason for this was that palace aides wanted to prevent people and businesses from using the newlyweds as publicity for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex," the Mirror reported. Earlier, it was reported that Harry and Meghan had to return a £7 million wedding gift for that very reason." [This is not just a rule for Harry and Meghan, but for the entire royal family. (After all, as we well know, the royal family, especially Kate and Meghan, are big influencers of what to buy, and what they wear sells out almost immediately.) "The basic principle for members of the Royal Family to accept gifts is that hospitality and service The official guidelines state that "no gift, including but not limited to, should be received by a member of the Royal Family that would or would appear to obligate the donor in any way," the official guidelines state. [That is, the seven CHIVA, Crisis, Myna Mahalia Foundation, Scotty's Little Soldiers, StreetGames, Surfers Against Sewage, and The Wilderness Foundation U.K. Donations to one of the charities of their choice