Will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spend this holiday season as an engaged couple? All bets are off!
Gambling companies have decided close bets on when an engagement between the 33-year-old royal and the 36-year-old actress will take place, amid gossip that an announcement is coming soon.
“The rumour mill is going into overdrive and it looks like the worst kept secret is to be confirmed imminently,” Jessica Bridge of Ladbrokes, which suspended betting this week, tells PEOPLE. “It’s long been a case of when and not if Harry and Meghan announce they are engaged, and all bets are off for a 2018 wedding.”
The odds were 4/6 for the couple saying “I do” in 2018 before betting was closed.
On Tuesday, Company William Hill also closed betting on when the engagement will take place.
“Even at a very short price we were taking some serious money and chose to close the betting,” said spokesman Rupert Adams. “We believe the happy couple are already engaged and possibly have been for some time.”
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They are still taking bets on other factors of the relationship, like if Harry will shave his beard for the wedding (odds are now 4/6) and where the couple will walk down the aisle (St. Paul’s is the front-runner, followed by Westminster Abbey).
Odds are currently 3/1 that the couple will have a child — a cousin for Kate Middleton and Prince William‘s children, 4-year-old Prince George, 2-year-old Princess Charlotte and a third baby on the way — by the end…
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