Which heads of state are attending the royal wedding

The Queen of Denmark will be among about 2, guests. Prince Philippe and Princess Mathilde of Belgium. The Queen of Denmark. The Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.

Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco. The King and Queen of Norway. The Queen of Spain. The King of Swaziland. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand. The King of Tonga. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. The Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. The Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.

The Governor-General of Barbados. The Governor-General of Jamaica. The Governor-General of St Lucia. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will attend with her partner. Sharon and Rodney Halford Falkland Islands. John and Vilma Cranfield St. Members of government, Parliament and devolved administrations.

Samantha Cameron will accompany her husband, David. Labour leader Ed Miliband and Justine Thornton. Sir Gus and Lady O'Donnell. Mr and Mrs Simon Fraser. Representatives from the Church and other Faiths. Rowan Williams, who will officiate at the wedding, is among numerous leaders of faith.

Rabbi Anthony Bayfield. Anil Bhanot. Commissioner Elizabeth Matear, Salvation Army. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-Connor. Rabbi Alan Plancey. Imam Mohammad Raza. The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Canon Christopher Tuckwell. After months of speculation around the wedding guest list of the year , it has been confirmed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not invite an official list of political leaders when they marry on 19 May. Markle's wedding," a Kensington Palace spokesman said.

However, it's believed that the guest list will be limited to those who have a close relationship with the couple. According to royal reporter Richard Palmer , this is partly due to the limited space inside St George's Chapel, but also because the prince is not the direct heir to the throne and therefore not obliged to host political figures.

A royal source said that while Harry and Meghan hoped to see Barack and Michelle Obama soon, the former US President and his wife would not be at the wedding. The source would not say definitively whether the Obamas -- who are close to the royal couple -- had been invited. Unlike the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in , this royal wedding is not an official state occasion and is regarded as a private ceremony, so there is no onus on the couple to invite political leaders.

CNN understands that some world leaders may be invited on the basis of their personal relationships with Harry and Meghan. Around 1, people attended the ceremony in , while the chapel hosting the wedding in May has a capacity of just Related: Your questions about the Royal wedding, answered.

A number of heads of state were present at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Markle has called Trump 'divisive' and 'misogynistic'. Rumors about the guest list -- specifically the inclusion or not of the Obamas and President Trump -- have been swirling for months. Will Meghan Markle become the royal family's silent feminist?

While Prince Harry, who is obliged as a royal to be politically neutral, has never spoken publicly about Trump, Markle strongly criticized the now president in In an interview on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore i n May that year, two months before Harry and Meghan first met, she described Trump who was then a Republican candidate for the presidency as "divisive" and "misogynistic.

There had been speculation in the UK media that British officials feared the political consequences if the couple decide to invite Barack and Michelle Obama, with whom they are friends, but not Donald Trump. Harry has become close to the Obamas through their support for the Invictus Games, an event for injured servicemen and women that was started by the UK royal in