Boris Johnson and Carrie married quickly to not feel awkward at G7 and visiting Queen Mirror 3 hrs ago Milo Boyd
Boris Johnson tied the knot with Carrie Symonds so she would not feel ‘awkward’ at the G7 and Balmoral, political insiders have claimed.
The small wedding was put on in response to the upcoming global summit, which will see world leaders and their spouses mingling, it has been reported.
From June 11 to 13 Mrs Johnson, 33, will host the first ladies and gentleman at the UK event, including Joe Biden s wife Jill and Japanese prime minister’s wife, Mariko Suga.
France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, 68, Joachim Sauer, 72, husband of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, 46, wife of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau will also be in attendance.
Past G7 and G20 summits invariably show the political spouses at play, visiting art galleries, sampling delicious wines, dining at showcase restaurants and suchlike. The message seems to be that the weighty business of solving the world’s problems is conducted by their predominantly male partners locked in roundtable discussions, while the wives’ role is to “bolster” relationships.
Photographs and accompanying articles traditionally dissect the outfits that the women – and it is mainly women – are wearing, and their ratings in the glamour stakes. This, despite the fact they are largely powerful and accomplished people in their own right.
Awkward: Philip May, back right, poses with the other all-female spouses of world leaders at the G20 summit in Kyoto in 2019. Photograph: Du Xiaoyi/AFP/Getty Images