BBC star held secret nuptials at celebrity-favourite Cliveden House
- The climate presenter tied the knot on Wednesday in a ‘romantic and intimate wedding ceremony’
Carol Kirkwood couldn’t have chosen a venue for her secret wedding ceremony extra steeped in historical past, glamour and intrigue than Cliveden House.
The Grade I listed Italiante mansion and expansive grounds, with beautiful views throughout to Windsor Castle, had been the right backdrop to her personal wedding ceremony to accomplice Steve Randall.
The couple, who received engaged in 2022 on the Chelsea Flower Show, regarded completely at dwelling as they posed for images amid the splendour of the oak panelling contained in the £400 an evening five-star resort.
The BBC climate presenter, who regarded beautiful in an off-the-shoulder robe, tied the knot on Wednesday in what she described because the ‘most perfect and romantic and intimate wedding.’
Carol Kirkwood and Steve Randall (pictured) tied the knot on Wednesday, with the BBC Presenter describing it because the ‘most excellent day’
The couple have been bombarded with messages of goodwill from followers and TV colleagues
The majestic Cliveden House (pictured) has a vibrant historical past
She later described the marriage because the ‘most perfect day’ on social media.
It is the second marriage for 61-year-old Carol and in addition for police officer Randall who’s 13 years her junior. His marriage led to 2017 and he has a teenage daughter together with his ex Nicola.
Kirkwood’s first marriage to ex cricketer Jimmy Kirkwood led to 2008 after 18 years.
The couple, who’ve been bombarded with messages of goodwill from followers and TV colleagues, couldn’t have chosen a venue extra suited to holding along with her plans for a personal and intimate event.
It additionally occurs to be their ‘local’ resort.
The couple reside in a gated neighborhood not removed from Cliveden having moved in collectively final 12 months.
Not solely does Cliveden supply a jaw dropping vista of landscaped grounds it additionally has a spot within the historical past books because the setting for a intercourse scandal that modified the UK political panorama within the 60s.
Meghan Markle, pictured right here along with her mom, Doria Ragland, stayed at Cliveden House Hotel earlier than she met Prince Harry
It was the place in 1961 warfare minister John Profumo was first captivated by a unadorned Christine Keeler rising from the swimming pool.
Two years later their affair led to the downfall of the Conservative Government after it turned recognized Keeler was additionally in a relationship with Russian Naval attaché Yevgeny Ivanov.
The title of Cliveden eternally turned related to the scandal and sketches of Keeler, her good friend Mandy Rice Davis by Stephen Ward, the society osteopath who launched Keeler to Profumo are on show on the resort.
A resort since 1985, it has been lengthy been related to royalty and the wealthy and well-known.
Prior to her Windsor Castle wedding ceremony Megham Markle spent the evening at a set within the resort in 2018.
The late Queen and Princess Margaret typically visited the home making the five-mile journey from Windsor Castle.
The Princess of Wales additionally visited the home, attending a glittering dinner in 1991.
English former mannequin, showgirl and key determine within the Profumo scandal, Christine Keeler
From the second it was inbuilt 1666 the huge home has been related to royalty and the Aristocracy and is the previous seat of 1 Prince of Wales, two Dukes, and Earl and the Viscounts Astor.
It was constructed by the Duke of Buckingham for his mistress as a rustic pile the place he might entertain her and their buddies in model.
Built on a commanding place on a chalk cliff, the title Cliff-dene was initially given to the property.
Lord George Hamilton purchased Cliveden in 1696, shortly after he was made Earl of Orkney and on his loss of life the property handed by way of a number of generations.
From 1737 to 1751 it was dwelling to Frederick, Prince of Wales.
The home remained in personal possession till in 1893 William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, purchased the home for $1.2m.
At the flip of the century Cliveden turned the setting for quite a few glittering events and the centre of European political and literary conferences.
The heyday of entertaining was between the warfare the place friends included George Bernard Shaw, TE Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling and Mahatma Gandhi.
Since the Nineteen Forties the home has been managed by the National Trust and 5 years after the notorious pool assembly involving Profumo it was opened to the general public.
It is now leased to hoteliers Ian and Richard Livingstone who additionally personal the spa resort Chewton Glen within the New Forest.
Apart from weddings, comparable to Carol Kirkwood’s, it’s also in style as setting for movies and TV collection.
The Beatles second movie ‘Help’ featured the expansive grounds whereas different movies together with ‘Chaplin’ and ‘Cinderella’ had been filmed at Cliveden. The TV collection ‘Mr Selfridge was additionally filmed on the Berkshire resort.
