British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancée Carrie Symonds in a secretly planned wedding at Westminster Cathedral at the weekend.

He is the first prime minister to get married while in office in nearly 200 years, according to the BBC.

A Downing Street spokesman said the ‘small ceremony’ was held on Saturday afternoon. 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.

The couple would celebrate again with family and friends next summer, with their honeymoon also delayed until then.

According to the report, although Johnson, 56, has been married twice before, the Roman Catholic Church can allow divorcees to remarry if the previous marriages were outside the Roman Catholic Church.

[Image: Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street]


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