Friendly exes: The actress – who is now married to Brad Falchuk (pictured in 2019) – has remained close friends with Chris since their divorce, with the former couple and their new partners going on double dates and even holidays with each other
There may, too, have been other sensible reasons for caution. Questions had been raised over the timing of the start of their relationship – Edo had been living with his fiancée, Chinese-American architect Dara Huang, the mother of his son. But any suggestion that Beatrice had caused the split were denied.
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After all, Princess Eugenie’s 2018 wedding to Jack Brooksbank was a dazzling blend of pomp, pageantry and showbiz with Robbie Williams chewing gum behind the Queen while actress Demi Moore and model Kate Moss were among those filling the pews.
In spite of all this, she keeps calm and carries on – a quality admired by the Queen who could not have given her granddaughter a greater seal of approval than loaning her a dress and a treasured tiara.
In the beginning, this was perhaps for good reason. Edo and Beatrice’s families have been close for decades, moving in similar circles. Indeed, Beatrice has spoken of their ‘similar interests and values’.
But the Covid-19 crisis, and the 100-year-old Army captain’s colossal act of gallantry in raising £33 million for NHS charities, happily combined to spare the Royal Family’s blushes over what to do about the beleaguered Duke of York.
From the start, there was speculation the two would opt for a low-key wedding ‘in the back garden’, in part to quell the disquiet over the taxpayer-footed bill for the security surrounding Eugenie’s lavish nuptials and growing concern over Andrew’s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Compared to its more glamorous sister sports – Crossfit, yoga, bodybuilding and strongman – powerlifting remains on the fringes of mainstream athletics and generally attracts a more colourful range of competitors.
And while no one could deny her wish to be married, the idea of replicating the full bells-and-whistles affair her younger sister Eugenie enjoyed two years ago at St George’s Chapel would have been to risk a PR disaster.
But Andrew’s future public role in the Royal Family has become academic in view of him stepping down as UK trade envoy, being named in legal papers during the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, the closure of the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust, his disastrous Newsnight interview and his withdrawal from public life.
Inevitably, this led to tension between him and Andrew, who was very concerned that his daughters – the only two ‘blood princesses’ of their generation, he often stressed – might be deemed surplus to requirements and rudely sidelined.
The ‘secret’ wedding, arranged at short notice, eradicated the gnawing problem of how to handle the public profile of Prince Andrew as he comes under increasing pressure in the Ghislaine Maxwell affair
Keane describes himself as the ‘cult leader’ at Pale Horse Powerlifting on the New South Wales Central Coast, where he charges upwards of $200 per month for customised training plans and online coaching
A powerlifting champion who was once accused of seducing a vulnerable 17-year-old girl has turned over a new leaf as a satanic ‘cult leader’ and porn star who advocates animal welfare and mental health support at his thriving Central Coast gym.
And so the ideal compromise was reached – an unannounced and private wedding planners dates with around 20 guests in the out-of-the-way Chapel of All Saints on the Windsor estate – with Captain Tom invited to the Castle for the higher-profile ceremony.
The actress – who is now married to Brad Falchuk – has remained close friends with Chris since their divorce, with the former couple and their new partners going on double dates and even holidays with each other.
It came after a photograph showing the future face of the House of Windsor – the Queen, Charles and Camilla, and William and Kate, laden down in sashes and garters, presenting themselves to the world’s diplomatic corps – did not include him.
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The Covid-19 crisis, and the 100-year-old Army captain’s (pictured) colossal act of gallantry in raising £33 million for NHS charities, happily combined to spare the Royal Family’s blushes over what to do about the beleaguered Duke of York