Maria Laura Avignolo
05/25/2021 13:30
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Updated 05/25/2021 1:44 PM
Post Covid love.
Boris Johnson has set
a date to marry
his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds, in the European summer of 2022. A
"Save the Date"
has been sent to his friends for next July 30, 2022. He is hopeful that the current sanitary restrictions for weddings in Britain end by then.
The Downing Street spokesman declined to comment on the story, published in The Sun, saying it was a "personal matter" and not a public one.
Boris and Carrie, the former press chief of the Conservative party and the age of their eldest children, began a
clandestine courtship
, which ended with Boris' divorce from his wife Marina, a British lawyer of Indian origin Sihk, whose intimate friend since childhood.
This will be Johnson's third marriage and will make him the second Prime Minister to marry while in office, 200 years after Lord Liverpool married Mary Chester in 1822.
He and Symonds are the first
single couple
to move to Downing Street.
Johnson finalized his divorce from his second wife, QC Marina Wheeler, last year after 27 years of marriage.
His first wife was
Allegra Mostyn-Owen,
whom he met at Oxford and married in 1987. He has a sixth child from an affair with an art consultant, Helen MacIntyre.
Boris and and Symonds are the first single couple to move to Downing Street.
Photo: EFE
Carrie's Power
Carrie has increasing
power
in Downing St. She is the one who managed to convince Boris to oust Dominic Cummings, the prime minister's senior adviser, from the government.
Today Cummings
threatens the stability
of Boris with serious revelations that he will make this Wednesday in a committee of the House of Commons on the conduct of the pandemic.
He will relate how the premier missed the Cobra security committee appointments in full Covid because he had to finish his book to be able to pay the divorce to Marina and the objective of herd immunity in the kingdom against Covid.
For the past several weeks, Boris has been embroiled in an affair over who paid for the redecoration of his Downing St apartment, which exceeded state authorization.
Carrie has more and more power in Downing St. Photo: AFP
But Carrie could not bear "the John Lewis armchairs as a legacy of Theresa May" and had to adapt the house to the arrival of Wilfred, her baby.
Now the controversy is
who will pay for the
wedding
party
.
Boris's finances have been
strained
after his divorce following his resignation from writing the column in The Telegraph, where he was paid nearly £ 300,000 a year, and his “Speaker” tour after big meals, the source of his biggest income. , with
100,000 pounds per presentation.
The news has sparked
speculation
about the likely location of the wedding and the arrangements for the event.
Johnson and Symonds's friends strongly deny any knowledge of the plans.
Options for the party
Three could be the options to celebrate the party.
The prime minister has the right to use his official country house at
Checkers,
where he usually spends weekends.
The official country house in Checkers of the British Prime Minister in a 2010 file image. Photo: EFE
But you will have to pay the bill if you do it there, which would be the safest and most discreet place for guests and your reputation.
Another possibility is at
Westminster Abbey
, where the couple's son, Wilfred, was baptized.
Carrie, a staunch ecologist, works at the Aspinall Animal Conservation Foundation.
So an alternative is the
Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve
in Kent, a wild animal sanctuary, managed by them.
Nobody rules out that it is on Exmoor, where the Johnsons have had a field since childhood, or in
Somerset
, at the country house of their sister Rachel.
Nimco Ali, the activist against female genital mutilation, and Emma Barr, the former special adviser to the government, could be
bridesmaids.
Thumbs up.
Boris and his girlfriend at the entrance to Downing St. Photo: Reuters
Boris's divorce produced
serious tensions
between the Johnsons.
But they would all go to the wedding.
There would be Stanley, the father, the mother of Boris, who is an artist, his brothers Rachel, Leo and Jo and their adult children Lara, Milo, Cassie and Theodore.
Wilfred will have 15 months by the time of the ceremony.
The
friends Symonds
likely to
be invited include Minister of Environment, environmentalist and anti European Lord Goldsmith, and Downing Street adviser, Henry Newman.
Symonds's mother, Josephine McAfee, is expected to play a key role, after moving to Downing Street in January, to become part of the family's
"domestic bubble"
and help care for Wilfred.
Carrie's father was one of the founders of The Independent newspaper.
Ecologist, defender of the environment, everyone speculates on how the
wedding dress
will be
.
Nobody rules out that Stella McCartney could be one of those chosen to design it after having been the one who created the dress for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, for the reception after her wedding.
Dilyn, the Downing St dog, a jack Russell cross, adopted by the couple in 2019 from a shelter, could also play a role in the event.
The love story
The love story became official on the paradisiac island of Mustique, in the Caribbean, where they got engaged, after winning the elections in 2019.
Johnson faces a lengthy investigation by the parliamentary commissioner into
how that
£ 15,000
vacation was paid
for and whether he correctly declared it.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, in London.
Photo: Reuters
Johnson and Symonds announced their engagement and that they were expecting a child in February of last year.
Under current regulations, only
up to 30 people
are allowed to attend
a ceremony or reception in England.
The government aims to lift this rule on June 21, but Downing St has emphasized that this depends on the effect of the Indian variant.
The prime minister is confident that he will be able to lift the restrictions next month.
Epidemiologists suggest that large events, including weddings, are no more dangerous than gathering indoors in restaurants and pubs, as long as people undergo quick tests beforehand.
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