Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank are set to tie the knot on October 12 – 10 months after the two announced their engagement.

But, according to a recent report by Vanity Fair, the couple has been waiting over a year to get married.

In late September, an anonymous source told Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent, Katie Nicholl, that Eugenie and Brooksbank had “agreed to get married months before” they broke the news of their engagement on January 22.

The source, which Vanity Fair identified only as “a family friend” of the princess, said the couple talked about having their wedding in 2017, “but they had to wait for [Prince] Harry to go first.”

According to Vanity Fair's source, Harry's engagement announcement and wedding to Meghan Markle took precedence over Eugenie's because of his rank in the royal family. Harry is currently sixth in line to the British throne, while Eugenie is ninth, right behind her older sister, Princess Beatrice.

Nevertheless, Eugenie and Brooksbank reportedly had "no bad feelings at all" about delaying their happy news because of royal protocol, the source told Vanity Fair. "Eugenie is very close to Harry, and she knows how the system works," the source said.

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Eugenie and Brooksbank - who met in 2010 during a ski trip in Switzerland - will exchange their vows in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on October 12. Their wedding is slated to start at 11 a.m. in the UK (6 a.m. EST) and will be broadcast live in the UK on ITV. It's currently unclear if the wedding will be broadcast in full in the United States via ITV America. INSIDER has reached out to ITV for information.

Royal expert Victoria Arbiter did not immediately reply to INSIDER's request for comment.

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