Bishop Michael Curry Talks Prince Harry, Meghan Markle

The world watched as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got married in May. The ceremony was full of buzz-worthy moments—Meghan’s dress reveal, the sweet moment she shared with Prince Charles as he walked her halfway down the aisle, that highly-anticipated kiss—but one in particular got the whole world talking.

Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon about the power of love was a highlight of the ceremony and, at the 2018 VH1 Trailblazers event, he opened up about the moment he realized that Harry and Meghan (who he didn’t know before the wedding) were truly in love.

“Once I realized this was really happening, it was a real blessing to be a part of that. Because what they did, you could see it. They actually love each other. They really do,” he told Us Weekly. “They look at each other like they love each other. I remember thinking after the sermon, once I preached the sermon, I said, ‘These two people love each other.’ They look at each other, and their love brought the rest of us together.”

In fact, it was the power of Harry and Meghan’s love that drove his scene-stealing sermon.

“Their love for each other brought two countries together, in Great Britain and the United States. They brought people of different religious perspectives and different religions together. They brought people of different political persuasions, people of different sexual orientations, people of different classes, people of different races, people of different nations,” Curry explained. “Their love, even if it was just for a few moments, showed us the power of what unselfish love that gives itself to another can actually do.”

And was it stressful to speak at the biggest wedding of the decade? Not really, according to Curry.

“Every once in a while, I would feel [the pressure], but once I got up, I became a parish priest again,” he said. “I’ve probably done hundreds of weddings, and it became they were a couple who had their family there and friends and a couple billion other people. I basically turned into a parish priest again and talked to them like I’d talk to any other couple.”