[40] She was additionally involved in a political controversy over the refurbishment of the 11 Downing Street flat,[40] and her comments over the flat's decor being a "John Lewis furniture nightmare" (John Lewis typically being an aspirational, upper-middle-class shop) led to accusations of snobbery. She left the post later in 2018. Carrie Symonds with Harry Cole. She got the title of First Girlfriend after that. Harry Cole's office location 606 Denbigh Blvd, . Her intervention infuriated some former colleagues but she was praised for her bravery in a handwritten note from then-Prime Minister Theresa May after the row. [2][8], Symonds originally planned to become an actor, and unsuccessfully auditioned for the 2007 film Atonement. Mrs Johnson was first romantically linked to her now husband by the media in early 2019. She went to the University of Warwick to study Art History and Theatre Studies, graduating as BA (Hons) in 2009. [60][61], For other people named Carrie Johnson, see, GRO Register of Births = MAR 1988 15 449 WANDSWORTH - Caroline Louise B. Symonds, mother's maiden name = Lawrence. She left her Government job in the summer of 2018 amid claims of rows with No 10 over her closeness to Mr Johnson's camp, and moved to City news firm Bloomberg before taking on a public relations role with the Oceana project, which aims to protect the world's oceans. Around seven years into his marriage to Marina, she became aware that Boris was having an affair with Petronella Wyatt, daughter of Margaret Thatcher's favourite journalist Woodrow Wyatt. The puppy was abandoned by puppy farmers and rescued by Friends of Animals Wales in Rhondda. Ms Symonds was asked to leave her 80,000-a-year after party chiefs said her performance was poor, havingpreviously challenged her over taxi expenses. Carrie was previously in a relationship with a political editor for The Sun, Harry Cole, but no children came of that relationship. In January 2020, concerns were raised about her influence on the Prime Minister when she received memoirs from the Badgers Trust weeks before the government withdrew the badger cull in Derbyshire. There is also the continuing mystery of Boris's existing children and his numerous extramarital affairs. only to find out his pal Boris has been having an affair with his long-term partner, Tory staffer, Carrie Symonds. [21] She worked at Conservative Campaign Headquarters,[22] and later campaigned for Boris Johnson in the 2010 London Conservative Party mayoral selection. In 2009, she graduated with a BA (Honours) in Art History and Theater Studies from the University of Warwick, Coventry, England. According to his family tree, Harry was father to 1 child.He married Annie Jane (Formby) Cole, . Married: Affairs/Boyfriends Harry Cole (British Political Journalist) Boris Johnson (2018-2021) Marriage Date: 29 May 2021: Marriage Place: Westminster Cathedral, Church: Family: Jo Macfarlane for The Mail on Sunday On October 3 last year, Ms Arcuri told the Daily Mail she had 'every right' to go on trade missions with Mr Johnson. On Friday, it emerged Ms Symonds had hired a media professional to handle her communications and help on her campaigns as she molds into the role of the UK's first lady. His paternal step-grandfather, Richard Symonds, was an English scholar and civil servant. [37], Concerns over her influence on the prime minister were raised in January 2020, when it came to light that she had received briefs from animal rights activists just before the government pulled a planned cull of badgers in Derbyshire. In the honor of Boris and Carries wedding, PETA gifted them a goose and named it Barrie which is a mix of the couples names. Around 30 guests attended the intimate wedding, and the Johnsons plan to have a . After Boris Johnson became the Prime Minister of the UK, he moved to 10 Downing Street with Carrie, they became the first unmarried couple to live in Prime Ministers official residence. Johnson later reconciled with Mostyn-Owen before they separated in February 1990 and divorced in 1993 - just 12 days before he married Marina Wheeler, whom he had a child with five weeks later. Former Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson wrote: 'Congratulations to Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds.'. Their relationship ended after six years following revelations of his affair with Marina Wheeler QC, who was a childhood friend of Boris. Her zodiac sign is Pisces. They now live in a flat above Number 11 Downing Street and have adopted a Jack Russell-cross puppy called Dilyn. 'Many of you already know but for my friends that still don't, we got engaged at the end of last year and we've got a baby hatching early summer.'. The Mail on Sunday pointed out that Johnson was the first British prime minister to marry in office for nearly 200 years, since Lord Liverpool married Mary Chester in 1822. In 2018, Carrie stepped down as the Conservative Partys communications director. Reportedly, she was asked to leave by party chiefs who claimed that she showed poor performance. Boris Johnson with his father and siblings, Rachel and Jo. A No 10 source said: 'Boris and Carrie are both delighted at this news. She is an animal lover. [31], Symonds was the youngest of Worboys's victims, and waived her anonymity to talk about her experiences and, later, to campaign against his early release, fundraising for a successful judicial review of the decision. She was earlier in a relationship with British political journalist Harry Cole. Boris Johnson (2018-Present) - It was in 2018 that she started going out with politician Boris Johnson and the duo got engaged the following year. Carrie Symonds with Harry Cole. Other than Cole, she was not spotted with any other male until 2018. In April 2020, she called for an end to wet markets. In 2007, aged 19, she was going home from a Kings Road nightclub in a taxi, which was driven by the taxi driver John Worboys, convicted in the serial rape cases in 2009. His eldest son Ivan, who suffered from cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy, died the year before Florence's arrival. Web. Her maternal grandmother, Anne Symonds, was an English broadcaster on culture and politics for the BBC World Service. He was a childhood friend of Ms Wheeler - the daughter of BBC journalist Charles Wheeler - when both were pupils at the European School in Brussels. Her maternal grandmother, Anne Symonds, was an English culture and politics presenter for the BBC World Service. By Jack Elsom and Danyal Hussain for MailOnline and Glen Owen and Harry Cole for the Mail on Sunday Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds are engaged and expecting a baby in early summer . Florence Rose Endellion was born weighing 6lb 1oz while the Camerons were enjoying a family summer holiday in Cornwall. The Prime Minister and Carrie got married on May 29, 2021 at Westminster Cathedral. Boris's subsequent marriage to Marina lasted 25 years - during which he had affairs with three women. Carrie Symonds with Boris Johnson. [57][58] In July 2021, she announced that they were expecting their second child together, also revealing that she had suffered a miscarriage earlier that year. [2] She was brought up by her mother in East Sheen, South West London, and between 1999 and 2006 attended Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent day school for girls. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of . David Cameron and his wife Samantha had daughter Florence just three months after her father entered into coalition with the Liberal Democrats. [3]BBC. and In 2013 it emerged during another court hearing that Mr Johnson had fathered a daughter during an adulterous liaison while Mayor of London in 2009. In July 2019, when Boris became Prime Minister of the UK, the couple moved to 10 Downing Street. Symonds worked as a Conservative Party media official and an environmental activist, and remains a senior advisor to the ocean conservation charity Oceana, and is a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. That year, she was constantly seen with the then Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson who was still married. She even convinced UK supermarkets to stop selling coconut products made using monkey slave labour in Thailand. London, United Kingdom. In 2004, it was reported that 'Petsy' may have had an abortion, to which Boris declared to The Mail on Sunday: 'I had not had an affair with Petronella. In December, Mr Johnson's sister Rachel Johnson said she has yet to meet Ms Symonds. Carrie Symonds with Harry Cole In 2018, she began dating Boris Johnson, the then Foreign Secretary, while Boris was still married to his second wife, Marina Wheeler. After that proved unsuccessful, she turned her attention to politics, joining the Conservatives as a press officer. In August 2019, Carrie applied for a visa for few days to go to the United States due to work purposes, but US authorities blocked her request, citing her five-day visit to Somaliland, Horn of Africa. This suggests that she was granted a decree nisi by the courts more than a year ago. [49] Journalist Sarah Vine, on the other hand, said that while it is easy to "blame the woman", the truth is "far more complicated", adding that Johnson's head did not deserve "to be on the block". Carrie Symonds husband and mother-in-law. Ms Symonds has been dubbed the 'Duchess of Downing Street', a reference to the similarity of her fashion to Kate Middleton, as well as a nod to her growing power behind the scenes at Number 10. On 29 February 2020, Symonds and Johnson announced that they had become engaged in late 2019. In 2018, she began dating Boris Johnson, the then Foreign Secretary, while Boris was still married to his second wife, Marina Wheeler. Last year, pictures emerged of a scantily-clad Ms Symonds appearing in an occult-inspired play at university. Boris and Carrie's 'Brexit baby' - How Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds made history as first unmarried couple to live together in Downing Street. Digital Minister Matt Warman told the Commons that his department had done the 'usual due diligence' and that the company had a British phone number. According to The Guardian, a judicial review was granted to examine how the decision was reached. Harry Cole's appointment as political editor of The Sun in May saw him return to his old newsroom. Judge Sarah Gibbons oversaw a private hearing in the Central Family Court in London, which neither party attended. Wedding picture of Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson, In December 2021, she gave birth to a baby girl, making Boris Johnson the father of her second child after Wilfred. Before becoming a special adviser to Number 10 Henry Newman was the director of the think tank Open Europe before it closed in 2020. Milo went to 27,000-a-year Westminster School and can speakArabic, Russian and French, The Mirror reports. 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