{"id":24185,"date":"2021-05-30T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T10:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24185"},"modified":"2021-05-30T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T10:15:35","slug":"british-pm-boris-johnson-marries-carrie-symonds-at-westminster-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/30\/british-pm-boris-johnson-marries-carrie-symonds-at-westminster-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"British PM Boris Johnson marries Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a secretly-planned ceremony at Westminster Cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wedding took place in a “small ceremony” on Saturday afternoon, a Downing Street spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The spokesman added that the couple would celebrate again with family and friends next summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Johnson is the first prime minister to get married while in office in nearly 200 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi offered his congratulations, saying it was “wonderful” news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Zahawi told Sky News that he was not invited to the ceremony, but congratulated the couple on their marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it’s a wonderful thing for both of them that they have really made their marriage vows to one another,” Mr Zahawi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey tweeted: “Congratulations @BorisJohnson and @carriesymonds on your marriage today.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster also wished them a “huge congratulations” on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Mr Johnson has been married twice before, the Roman Catholic Church allows divorcees to remarry if the previous marriages were outside the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mail on Sunday reported<\/a> that 30 guests were invited to the ceremony at short notice – the maximum number of attendees allowed under Covid restrictions in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small number of church officials were involved in preparations for the Catholic ceremony, which was officiated by Father Daniel Humphreys, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sun said<\/a> senior Downing Street aides did not know about the wedding beforehand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the public were asked to leave Westminster Cathedral just after 13:30 BST, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musicians were pictured leaving No 10 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People carrying musical instruments were seen leaving Downing Street on Saturday evening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The last prime minister to get married while in office was Robert Banks Jenkinson in 1822.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Symonds was first romantically linked to Mr Johnson, 56, by the media in early 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Symonds used to work in the Conservative Party press office, which she joined in 2010, and two years later she worked on Mr Johnson’s successful campaign to be re-elected as mayor in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She became the party’s head of communications before leaving in 2018 to work in public relations for marine conservation organisation Oceana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple\u00a0revealed that they were engaged\u00a0and that she was pregnant in February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their son, Wilfred,\u00a0was born last April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Johnson and his previous wife, Marina Wheeler,\u00a0announced in 2018\u00a0that they were divorcing after 25 years of marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was previously married to Allegra Mostyn-Owen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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