This is terrible. Always questioning the truth even if it comes out of the parties concerned.
Idriss Elba has himself told of his link to Harry. Indeed he himself said that he benefited from the Prince's Trust as an aspiring actor, and in return, he has been giving back. He became acquainted with the POW as well as his sons, an he became friend with Harry overtime. As a side gig, he dj, and Harry asked him if wanted to dj at his wedding at the evening event.
He has known him, long before Meghan
In no way was I ever questioning Elba's connection to the royals. I didn't say that Elba did not know Prince Harry. In fact, I noted in my previous post that it was Elba's connection with the Prince's Trust, and his success as an actor which connected him to the royals. So of course, Elba was acquainted with both Prince Charles and Prince Harry well before Prince Harry began dating Meghan. Thus, the wedding invitation. During the royal wedding broadcast, one of the less-informed network commentators queried Elba's connection to Meghan and Harry (so that is in part what I was recalling).
I appreciate you linking Elba's March 2019 interview comments on the
Ellen talk show. I was not fully aware of how well he and Harry might know each other, but I was aware they knew each other. According to Elba's comments on
Ellen, he'd 'hung out' with Harry and William on a few occasions, and Harry had attended a few of Elba's parties where Elba had served as dj. Obviously impressed by Elba's dj skills, Harry asked him to dj for the royal wedding after-party. Clearly, Elba was honored and taken by surprise as well. Still, my doubting that Prince Harry and Elba were 'fast friends' is accurate. They were apparently casual acquaintances who 'hung out' together on a few occasions, prior to the royal wedding.
This is obviously an example of 'famous and wealthy people with common ground flocking together,' as I discussed in my previous post. It's also an example of royalty rubbing shoulders with VIPs and with 'all the best,' talented people in the world. Fancy that.
Another example is when Diana PoW got the Spice Girls to show up at KP as a surprise birthday appearance for Prince William. Cool, eh!
My speculation (as I noted in the earlier post) is that Elba and his fiancee obviously must have struck up a cordial connection with both M&H in order to have received the expensive wedding gift. That means a cordial connection between both couples, beyond Elba's casual acquaintance with Prince Harry before last year's royal wedding. And btw, as the receiver of a wedding gift from any royals, I personally would have tried to keep such a gift on the down-low, rather than having it leaked out to the media. But that's just me.
I do recall hearing about the dj gig request of Elba by Harry. That sounds like a cool blast of fun really. Idris Elba is a fine actor. I've not seen his much talked about series,
Luther, but I'm planning to soon binge-watch on Netflix. ?
As far as my references to celebs 'jockeying and putting out feelers,' I most certainly was not characterizing Idris Elba in that way, since he knew the royals long before Harry met Meghan. I was talking about famous celebs and VIPs who actually did not know Meghan or Harry well or at all prior to their courtship and engagement.
For example, Ivanka Trump was one of the famous people to whom little known
Suits actress Meghan had placed a cold call to for a former Tig feature. Ivanka had generously complied. After the royal engagement announcement of M&H, Ivanka was one of the famous people with a tangential connection who tweeted congratulations to Meghan. But alas, Ivanka did not receive a wedding invite.
Even absent the 'no political invitees UK government directive,' I doubt Ivanka was anywhere near making the wedding guest list first draft or final cut.
I doubt that Harry was fast friends with Elba and his beau prior to the royal wedding. I'd heard that Elba was fairly acquainted with Prince Charles, since Elba had benefited from youth initiatives provided by the Prince's Trust. That's one reason why Elba was on the guest list with his plus one (Canadian model, Sabrina Dhowre, a former Miss Vancouver). I've already seen the DM article you posted, because I was enticed to the site (a rare exception) due to a Markle-related cluster-bust story. 
It's a very curious case of mocking and dissing an admitted amateur photographer, IMO. 
