Boris Johnson wedding – Carrie Symonds & Prime Minister to delay honeymoon as couple congratulated for ‘secret’ marriage
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CHIC bride Carrie Symonds rented a designer hippy dress for her wedding to Boris Johnson — for just £45.
The Prime Minister, 56, wearing a suit and Tory blue tie, and the new Mrs Johnson, 33, tied the knot in a top-secret ceremony on Saturday.
She married the PM in a £2,900 dress by a Greek luxury designer - and it's already sold out.
It is the Prime Minister's third marriage, having previously wedded Allegra Mostyn-Owen and Marina Wheeler.
Boris and Carrie got engaged in February 2020, before welcoming the pair's first child - Wilfred - two months later.
But the nuptials come just days after the couple were making headlines for the wrong reasons after former senior adviser Dominic Cummings spoke at a select committee hearing this week. Cummings claimed that Carrie had been trying to 'appoint her friends to particular jobs' within the Government.
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BORIS HITS BACK AT DOMINIC CUMMINGS
Boris' wedding comes after he furiously hit back at Dominic Cummings this week and said his bombshell claims of incompetence don't "bear any relation to reality".
The PM brushed aside criticisms of his leadership from his ex-chief adviser and insisted he did everything possible to "save life" during the pandemic
During a visit to a hospital in Essex he denied Mr Cummings' claims that his choices had led to tens of thousands of needless deaths.
Asked if they were true, he said: "No, I don't think so. This has been an incredibly difficult series of decisions, none of which have been taken lightly."
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BORIS' SON WILFRED ATTENDED CEREMONY
Boris and Carrie walked down the aisle to classical music and shared a kiss after reading their vows.
Their year-old son Wilfred was there to see the happy occasion – along with two official witnesses.
The ceremony was carried out by Father Daniel Humphreys who had given the couple pre-marriage instructions, and even baptised little Wilfred last year.
HOW MANY TIMES HAS BORIS BEEN MARRIED?
It's Carrie's first wedding - and Boris's third. He tied the knot with first wife Allegra Mostyn-Owen in 1987.
That marriage was annulled in 1993 — the same year he married Marina Wheeler. The couple had four children but separated in 2018.
They formally divorced weeks before news emerged of Boris’s engagement to Carrie.
The only other PM to marry in office was Lord Liverpool who wed Mary Chester in 1822. His first wife Louisa, 54, died the previous year.
Boris is also thought to be the first PM to divorce in office since Augustus FitzRoy, the 3rd Duke of Grafton.
BORIS & CARRIE'S RELATIONSHIP TIMELINE
Carrie Symonds reportedly grew close to Boris Johnson in 2018 when he was then Foreign Secretary.
Marina Wheeler, then married to Boris, later filed for divorce.
In July 2019, Boris became PM - and both he and Carrie moved into 10 Downing Street.
She made her first public appearance after moving in on August 16 2019, when she addressed the "gigantic" climate crisis.
On February 29 2020, the couple announced they were engaged and expecting their first child. Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson was born on April 29 2020 at University College Hospital in London.
CATHEDRAL WENT INTO 'LOCKDOWN' FOR BORIS' WEDDING
One witness said the cathedral went into lockdown for the half-hour service.
They said: “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 bungled into a car.
“It looked like nobody wanted to see who it was.”
GUESTS WERE INVITED LAST MINUTE
The 30 people who attended the wedding were invited last minute.
Only a handful of church officials were involved in the preparations.
Even senior Downing Street aides were totally unaware the couple were about to tie the knot - and reacted with surprise when informed by The Sun.
WHERE DID BORIS AND CARRIE TIE THE KNOT?
Boris and Carrie chose to tie the knot in London’s main Roman Catholic cathedral, just 1.5 miles from Downing Street.
Visiting tourists were blissfully unaware it was about to host the wedding of the year.
But shortly after 1.30pm, the Byzantine-style church was suddenly cleared out. Staff told visitors the building was going into lockdown.