Carrie Johnson

For other people named Carrie Johnson, see Carrie Johnson (disambiguation).

Carrie Johnson
Johnson in 2022
Born
Caroline Louise Beavan Symonds[1]

(1988-03-17) 17 March 1988 (age 36)
London, England
Alma materUniversity of Warwick (BA)[2]
OccupationMedia advisor
Known forSpouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (2021–2022)
Political partyConservative
Spouse
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(m. 2021)​
Children3
Parents
Relatives

Caroline Louise Beavan Johnson[3][4] (née Symonds; born 17 March 1988) is an English media consultant and is married to Boris Johnson. She is the daughter of Matthew Symonds, co-founder of The Independent.

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.[5][6] She began an affair with Johnson, then Foreign Secretary, in 2018 while he was still married to his second wife, Marina Wheeler.[2][7]

In July 2019, Johnson became Prime Minister and both he and Symonds officially moved into the flat above 11 Downing Street.[8][9][10][11] She was the first unmarried partner of a prime minister to reside at Downing Street. On 29 February 2020, Symonds and Johnson announced that they had become engaged in late 2019.[12] Symonds married Johnson in 2021.[13][14][15]

  1. ^ GRO Register of Births = MAR 1988 15 449 WANDSWORTH - Caroline Louise B. Symonds, mother's maiden name = Lawrence
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  3. ^ Lynch, Lucy (17 March 2009). ""I was drugged by rapist John Worboys" - Warwick University student bravely speaks out". Coventry Telegraph. Coventry. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  4. ^ Gillett, Francesca; Webster, Lucy (30 May 2021). "Carrie Johnson: Who is the prime minister's wife?". BBC News. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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  6. ^ "PM's partner Carrie Symonds makes first speech since No 10 move". BBC News. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
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