How did Carrie Symonds meet Boris Johnson and what did she do before she met him?
The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel  Never miss a big story in Cornwall again with our daily newsletter Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice  Carrie Johnson (ne Symonds) has taken on the pivotal role of entertaining the spouses of world leaders at the G7 summit this week. At 32, Johnson is the youngest of the G7 husbands, wives and partners. The G7 summit has been one of the Johnsons first public outings as a married couple, since they secretly wed in a private wedding ceremony in Westminster Cathedral at the end of May. While Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson werent romantically linked until early 2019, Johnson and Symonds have known each other for several years. Born to one of the founders of the Independent, Matthew Symonds, and newspaper lawyer Josephine McAffee, Johnson grew up in South-West London. She studied Theatre Studies and Art History at Warwick University, ultimately graduating with a first. In 2009, Johnson joined the Conservative party as a Press Officer, and campaigned for Boris Johnson in the 2010 London mayoral selection. Its unclear when exactly Carrie met Boris, but by 2018, she had been promoted to Head of Communications for the Conservatives  so its more than likely that they had met by that point. In 2019, Boris Johnson had left his wife, Marina Wheeler, and was rumoured to be living with Carrie in her flat in Camberwell, South East London. In July 2019, the couple hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons  the police were called to the Camberwell flat shared by Boris and Carrie Johnson, after a loud altercation, including shouting and banging, alarmed neighbours. Carrie Johnson has held a number of high-profile roles within the Conservative party, working as Special Advisor to two Secretaries of State, including Sajid Javid. After becoming embroiled in an expenses scandal, in which she was accused of claiming money for taxis to attend non work-related events, Johnson left the Conservative party in 2018. She later joined ocean conservation charity, Oceana, as a Senior Advisor. Since then, Johnson has primarily worked as an environmental campaigner and conservationist. In February 2020, Carrie and Boris Johnson announced that they had gotten engaged at the end of 2019, and that they were expecting a baby in mid-2020. Their son, Wilfred, was born on April 29th 2020, at University College Hospital. Carrie and Boris Johnson were married on May 29th 2021, at Westminster Cathedral. Carrie wore a bohemian-style wedding gown, which she rented from MyWardrobe HQ.