Julie Etchingham and Phillip Schofield will present ITV’s live, comprehensive coverage of the Royal Wedding

ITV today announced that Julie Etchingham and Phillip Schofield will present ITV’s live, comprehensive coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Saturday 19th May from a specially constructed studio in Windsor, and that the network will also broadcast a series of programmes leading up to the day itself.

The programmes in the run up include Invitation to a Royal Wedding (1×60, April 29th at 9pm, an Oxford Films Production for ITV) a documentary counting down to the wedding of the year, by going behind the scenes of some of Britain’s most iconic royal weddings in recent memory. Presented by Sir Trevor McDonald and Julie Etchingham the documentary meets the many people at the heart of making such momentous occasions work and discovers exactly what goes into orchestrating events attended by hundreds and watched by millions.

Invitation to a Royal Wedding explores the key ingredients of a royal wedding and offers privileged insights into what goes into their planning. Royal weddings have always been moments of worldwide attention and the marriage of the sixth in line to the throne to an American TV star is set to be another major global event. The programme also includes first-hand accounts of the unbelievable lengths taken to keep arrangements secret in the build up to big days like this. Plus Sir Trevor McDonald gets access to St George’s Chapel to find out the special significance of Harry and Meghan’s chosen wedding venue.