• Prince Harry recalls Army’s forbidden beard rule that prevented wedding.
• He needed special permission from Queen Elizabeth II to forgo a shave in his memoir “Spare”.
• Beards were forbidden in the British Army.

Prince Harry mentions wanting to keep his beard on the wedding day.

The Duke of Sussex describes how he needed special permission from Queen Elizabeth II to forgo a shave in his memoir “Spare”.

Harry writes and asks: “Granny, please, may I, for my wedding, keep my beard? Not a small ask either. A beard was thought by some to be a clear violation of protocol and long-standing norms, especially since I was getting married in my Army uniform.”

He then told: “Beards were forbidden in the British Army. But I was no longer in the Army and I desperately wanted to hang on to something that had become an effective check on my anxiety. Illogical, but true. I’d grown the beard during my voyage to the South Pole, and I’d kept it after returning home, and it helped, along with therapy, and meditation, and a few other things, to quell my nerves.”

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