Polo-playing Jack Mann, who has been pals with the Duke of Sussex since their days as officer cadets at Sandhurst, is getting married… and many expect Harry to make an appearance at the nuptials
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Prince Harry is being tipped for a return to the UK for the wedding of his friend Jack Mann, who acted as one of the ushers at his wedding to Meghan Markle.
A photo revealed for the first time in the Netflix docuseries shows the Duke of Sussex and six of his closest chums standing shoulder to shoulder at Windsor Castle on the night of the wedding.
It has even been suggested that polo-player Jack, 40, was Harry's "real" best man rather than Prince William, as the relationship between the royal brothers was already showing signs of strain.
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Society gossip columnist Richard Eden revealed in Friday's Daily Mail that Mann is due to marry "beguiling osteopath" Isabella Clark. He suggested the impending nuptials could take place at her family seat in Suffolk.
"The daughter of property hotshot Stephen Clark, Isabella's home is a magnificent, crenelated, 17th-century pile, with sweeping lawns down to a river. Handy for landing a helicopter, as Harry and Meghan may care to note," Eden writes.
Harry and Jack met as officer cadets at Sandhurst and were both commissioned into the Blues and Royals. After serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mann went on to co-found a private security company called Alma Risk.
His father is the Old Etonian adventurer and former SAS officer Simon Mann, who was imprisoned for his role in the so-called 'Wonga coup' in Equatorial Guinea in 2004.
After the coup's failure, Mann Sr spent five years in prison in the west African country and even had President Teodoro Obiang threatening to eat his testicles.
In his bombshell memoir Spare, Harry claimed that his role as best man to William when he married Catherine in 2011 was "all for show", fuelling rumours that he also had a "secret" best man.
The Mail on Sunday reported recently: "There have long been rumours in Harry’s circle that there was another best man, in secret. William was the public-facing best man but not the sole best man, nor the true best man in Harry's eyes."
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