LORD Freddie Windsor married his actress fiancée yesterday after striking a blow for his family’s honour by turning down offers of £600,000 from celebrity magazines who wanted to buy the rights to the wedding.

It was £100,000 more than Hello! paid Princess Anne’s son, Peter Phillips, when he married Autumn Kelly, a Canadian management consultant, at Windsor Castle last year, a deal that was much to the Queen’s apparent disapproval.

Hello! and OK! magazine were in a bidding war to secure exclusive rights to the nuptials of the only son of Princess Michael of Kent. His mother has been nicknamed “Princess Pushy” because of her supposed opportunistic ways.

Instead, Windsor, 30, and his bride, Sophie Winkleman, 29, allowed a royal magazine to cover the wedding in the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court for free.

The bridegroom is to quit his London job with a bank and move to Los Angeles so that his new wife can pursue her acting career in Hollywood.

Windsor, 30, who had been working in JP Morgan’s private banking division, is flying to California for a brief honeymoon before Winkleman starts filming her new US comedy series, 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne.

The young royal is hoping to continue working for the bank in California, according to a source close to the family. He has agreed to remain there for as long as the series runs — potentially several years.

His bride, who appeared in the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, sobbed during the ceremony. “I wept throughout the whole thing.” she said.

By marrying the 32nd in line to the succession, Winkleman has acquired the title Lady Frederick Windsor but she does not plan to use it professionally. She once played a princess in an ITV drama called The Palace.

The wedding had been carefully planned by Princess Michael over the past six months, even though she is the mother of the bridegroom, not the bride. Her personal touches included the candle lanterns that dotted the grounds and the choice of “warm apricot” for the lighting theme.

The wedding “probably substantially overshot” the £40,000 budgeted by the Winklemans, according to a family friend.

The couple invited guests to buy presents worth £22,682.34 from Selfridges, the London department store. Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and princes William and Harry sent a joint gift in their absence.

Prince Michael of Kent and his wife had hoped the wedding would attract some senior members of the royal family among the 400 guests, but apart from Princess Eugenie they had to make do with fictional ones.

Rupert Evans and Jane Asher, who played the king and queen mother in the The Palace, attended and read a poem at the service.

Guests included Mike Figgis, the film director whose Love Live Long featured Winkleman topless; Claudia Winkleman, her TV presenter half-sister; Ben Fogle, the adventurer; and Bryan Adams, the Canadian rock singer. Jemima Khan and her brother Zac Goldsmith, the Tory candidate, were also among the guests. Their mother, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, who is Windsor’s godmother, gave the party afterwards.

The bride wore a white pearl-coloured dress made of silk duchesse created by Anna-Roza Bistroff, who said she looked like “a princess from a fairy tale”. Windsor wore a suit by Hardy Amies.

A spokesman for the newlyweds said they had turned down a “life-changing” amount of money for the exclusive rights. He added: “They certainly thought hard about it but in the end they decided it wouldn’t be right. I’m sure the reputation of the royal family was part of their thinking.”

Instead, Majesty magazine has been granted an interview with the couple after the wedding, as well as a photoshoot, according to Ingrid Seward, the magazine’s editor. “It’s nothing like Hello! at all, we’re just doing a feature with a few pictures. It’s not a massively significant wedding — along the lines of the Duke of Gloucester’s kids, I suppose,” Seward said.