If there had been no way to view the actual marriage certificate and had Lambeth continued to maintain silence...I wonder if the Sussexes would have continued to insist that they were already married before May 19th?
Harry didn't insiste he was married. Meghan clearly made her silly statement to sound "cute", "OH look at us, we h ad a lovely private ceremony where we recited speeches from our fave romantic movie and made our own vows and the Archbishop was there and we were married..>"
but then she problaby forgot about it, till she found that it was SO easily proved a false statement that she had to back down on it.