Old Flames: Boris Johnson's Turbulent Love Life as He Ties the Knot for the Third Time

Carrie Symonds, formerly the Tory head of communications and mother of Boris Johnson's one year-old son, was seen arriving at Westminster Cathedral’s main door at just around 2pm on Saturday afternoon to marry Britain’s prime minister in a secret but highly-anticipated ceremony.

The bride donned a white folky dress and was later photographed with a flower wreath, looking all smiley and charming. This is the first marriage for Symonds. However, this is the third walk down the aisle for the UK PM, who is not a stranger to love scandals linked to his name.

​But apart from official marriages, Johnson’s string of affairs, including extramarital ones, is something forever engraved in history:

• Boris Johnson first got married in 1987, when he was just 23. He tied the knot with his Oxford University sweetheart, Tatler cover girl Allegra Mostyn-Owen. The marriage lasted six years, and according to Allegra, Johnson has been “a better ex than husband”. The two didn’t have kids and reportedly stayed on very good terms.
• Just 12 days after his first divorce, Johnson married British barrister Marina Wheeler, who was already pregnant with their first child, Lara Lettice. The two had known each other since childhood through their families and both studied at the European School in Brussels. Their 25 years of marriage were embroiled with scandals around Johnson’s love affairs and children resulting from them, ending in 2018 with a statement confirming their separation and divorce. The two reached a financial settlement only two years later, shortly before Symonds announced that she and Boris had been engaged since late 2019 and were already expecting a baby.  In addition to Lara Lettice, who reportedly described her dad as a “selfish b*****d”, Johnson and Wheeler had three more children: Milo Arthur, Cassia Peaches and Theodore Apollo.