Carrie Johnson
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Caroline Louise Beavan Johnson[3][4] (née Symonds; born 17 March 1988) is an English media consultant and is married to former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson. She is the daughter of Matthew Symonds, co-founder of The Independent.
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Born | Caroline Louise Beavan Symonds[1] (1988-03-17) 17 March 1988 (age 36) London, England |
Alma mater | University of Warwick (BA)[2] |
Occupation | Media advisor |
Known for | Spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (2021–2022) |
Political party | Conservative |
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Children | 3 |
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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]