Cute story in Richard Kay's column about the wedding of Viscount Somerton and Lady Lucy Alexander. It seems they first met at another wedding where she was bridesmaid (age six) and he was pageboy (age eight).
They used the photo from that first wedding for theirs.
What a pretty bride she makes!
Lady Lucy's 21-year engagement
Childhood friends: Newlyweds Lucy and James
People often meet their future spouses at weddings, but in Lady Lucy Alexander’s case the delay before her big day was rather longer than usual.
For Lucy — delightful daughter of Earl and Countess Alexander of Tunis — and Viscount Somerton, heir of the Earl of Normanton, were six and eight respectively when they met at a wedding where they were bridesmaid and pageboy.
Twenty-one years later there were memories of that day when Lucy and fiancé James married at the Normanton family seat, Somerley in Hampshire.
On the back of the order of service was a photo of the two on the occasion they first met. The couple, who were engaged last year, had been dating for two-and-a-half years.
More than 250 family and friends were at the house — used for a TV adaptation of Mansfield Park — for Saturday’s wedding.
Says Lucy’s mother, Davina Alexander: ‘It was a lovely day. Using that photograph taken all those years ago was really sweet.’