Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds reportedly marry
in secret ceremony
Pair exchanged vows at Westminster Cathedral on
Saturday, according to newspapers
Nadeem
Badshah
Sat 29 May
2021 21.39 BST
Boris
Johnson has reportedly married Carrie Symonds today at Westminster Cathedral in
a ceremony planned in strict secrecy, according to newspapers.
The pair
are said to have exchanged vows in front of a small group of close friends and
family, the Mail on Sunday and the Sun newspaper have reported.
The
ceremony had been planned for six months and a handful of church officials were
involved in the preparation, according to the Sun.
The 30
guests invited, the maximum number under current lockdown restrictions, are
said to have been informed only at the last minute.
It comes
just days after reports said the prime minister and Symonds had sent
save-the-date cards to family and friends for an event on 30 July 2022.
The
newspaper also reported that, shortly after 1.30pm, staff at the cathedral told
visitors to evacuate as the building was going into lockdown.
A limousine
transporting Symonds, 33, arrived at the piazza outside the main west door.
The
couple’s year-old son Wilfred is believed to have attended the nuptials along
with two official witnesses.
The
ceremony was reportedly carried out by Father Daniel Humphreys who had baptised
Wilfred last year.
One witness
told the newspaper: “It was closed for about half an hour and they all came out
after. It’s not very often we have weddings here, and when they came out they
were all bundled into a car.”
Symonds is
a former press adviser to the Conservative party and masterminded broadcast
coverage for the party during the 2015 general election.
The
marriage to Symonds is Johnson’s third. He first married at the age of 23 to
Allegra Mostyn-Owen in 1987. The wedding was annulled in 1993 following claims
he was having an affair with lawyer and childhood friend Marina Wheeler, whom
he married in 1993. The couple have four children. They separated in 2018 and
were divorced in 2020.
The
Northern Ireland first minister, Arlene Foster and work and pensions secretary
Therese Coffey were among those to tweet their congratulations to the couple.
Labour former
frontbencher Jon Trickett tweeted that the wedding was “a good way to bury this
week’s bad news” on Dominic Cummings’ testimony, the spread of the India
coronavirus variant and the row about funding of the Downing Street flat.
A Downing
Street spokesperson would not comment on the reports when asked by the
Guardian.
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