Boris Johnson marries Carrie Symonds

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Boris Johnson marries fiancee in secret ceremony - reports​

By Hazel Shearing
BBC News
Saturday 29th May 2021

The Prime Minister and Carrie Symonds were pictured together at the Six Nations rugby tournament last March

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at Westminster Cathedral, it has been reported.

The wedding was held in front of close friends and family on Saturday, according to several newspapers.

Downing Street has declined to comment.

Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster tweeted: "Huge congratulations to Boris Johnson & Carrie Symonds on your wedding today."

The Mail on Sunday reported that 30 guests were invited to the ceremony at short notice - the maximum number of attendees allowed under Covid restrictions in England.

A small number of church officials were involved in preparations for the Catholic ceremony, which was officiated by Father Daniel Humphries, it said.

The Sun said senior Downing Street aides did not know about the wedding.

Members of the public were asked to leave Westminster Cathedral just after 13:30 BST, it added.

Ms Symonds, 33, who wore a white dress to exchange vows with the prime minister, is reported to have arrived in a limo about half an hour later.

Ms Symonds was first romantically linked to Mr Johnson, 56, by the media in early 2019.
They revealed that they were engaged and that she was pregnant in February 2020.

Their son, Wilfred, was born last April.

Boris Johnson marries Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral

Boris Johnson returns to work a day after the wedding, as the newlyweds delay their honeymoon.

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I don't want to even imagine those two doing it.. Seriously..

 

[bob the dog]

Originally just thought it was a messy hair look but now see it is the worst comb over ever.

 

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The only other British Prime Minister to marry while in office is Robert Jenkinson, who married Mary Chester in 1822. Mary was Jenkinson's second wife. Carrie is Johnson's third.

 

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Originally just thought it was a messy hair look but now see it is the worst comb over ever.

Wilfred has certainly got his dad's hair...

 

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FIRST PICTURE: Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds gaze into each other's eyes in Downing Street garden after their secret Westminster Cathedral wedding as they vow to celebrate properly with friends and family next summer ​

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds gaze into each others' eyes in the first picture released of their wedding today. No10 confirmed the PM and his new bride tied the knot in a 'small ceremony' at Westminster Cathedral yesterday afternoon - with a bigger celebration planned for next summer. The confirmation comes after an extraordinary cloak-and-dagger operation with aides spending hours refusing to comment on the Catholic service, which was conducted in deep secrecy before being revealed by the Mail on Sunday. Despite the evasion, ministers, Tory MPs and Labour leader Keir Starmer have been openly congratulating the premier on his nuptials. A Downing Street spokesman said: 'The Prime Minister and Ms Symonds were married yesterday afternoon in a small ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. 'The couple will celebrate their wedding with family and friends next summer.' Mr Johnson, 56, exchanged vows with Ms Symonds, 33, in Catholic Westminster Cathedral in front of a handful of close friends and family - becoming the first Prime Minister to marry in office since Lord Liverpool married Mary Chester in 1822.