Craig Revel Horwood is planning to invite the Duchess of Cornwall to his wedding, and hopes Dame Shirley Bassey will belt out a few songs on his big day.
The Strictly Come Dancing judge, 57, has remained largely tight-lipped about plans for his and his horticulturist fiancé Jonathan Myring's nuptials.
But Craig has now told how he would "love" his friend and future Queen Consort Camilla to be in attendance, and he's been rehearsing some Shirley tunes in case the singer doesn't fancy performing.
Craig told Hello! magazine: "Of course I'll be inviting the future queen! I'd love her to be there. She's such fun and a lovely person, and will make a fantastic Queen Consort.
"I'd like Shirley Bassey to be there, too. I'd be very lucky if Shirley sings, but if not, I'll belt out her numbers instead."
Should Camilla accept Craig's invitation, the pair could well recreate their cha-cha-cha, when he danced with the 74-year-old royal when they met at a Royal Osteoporosis Society event in 2009, on his wedding dance floor.
Craig met Jonathan, 43, on Tinder in 2018, and they got engaged in March 2020 when Jonathan popped the question as they were holidaying in Tasmania.
In April of that year Craig told OK! Magazine: "Jonathan popped the question at the end of March on holiday in Tasmania and it was a total surprise – although I did almost ruin it all."
Jonathan explained he'd planned a picnic by the river where they could look for platypus - and he was going to pop the question as soon as they spotted one of the creatures.
However, he realised that platypus are "elusive" so changed his plan at the last minute.
He ended up proposing in a bathtub as the couple sipped Champagne.
Craig previously said the wedding will be in August 2023 and the couple now say it will be in the grounds of their new Victorian mansion, which is currently being refurbished and isn't expected to be ready for at least a year.
But there wouldn't have been a wedding at all if Jonathan's aunt had her way, as she tried to put her nephew off the "nasty" TV judge after forming an opinion of him from watching Strictly.
Craig tells this week's Hello!: "She tried to put him off me. 'You're not meeting that Craig Revel Horwood, are you? He's really nasty,' she warned him.
"But he'd never watched Strictly so wasn't aware of me.
"I knew as soon as I saw him that he was The One. We had an hour-long speed date over lunch - which I would recommend to everyone as I've been on three-hour dates with people I can't stand - and then arranged to meet two weeks later.
"It was a case of initial attraction, followed by getting to know one another, finding out where we were going in life and then, 'Shall we go to bed?' "
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