Marriage proposals at Ed Sheeran’s concerts have become a trend, but how about this for a wedding venue?
The pop superstar has revealed that the first marriage ceremony has been held at the newly built chapel at his Suffolk estate.
‘I let other people enjoy it, like my security guard got married in my chapel and that was really lovely,’ says Sheeran, who does not disclose the name of his member of staff.
The boat-shaped venue, which includes a burial chamber, was completed in 2023. ‘We can hold 40 or 50 people, but it’s, like, a crammed space.’
The singer, 34, whose hits include Perfect and Thinking Out Loud, adds: ‘I know it sounds weird to build an infrastructure on your property, where you don’t have to build it, but there are certain intimate moments you just want to spend with your family and not have someone filming you when you do it.’
Before Sheeran exchanged vows with Cherry Seaborn in 2018, he wanted to build a chapel for the ceremony.
However, planning officials ruled that the proposed 48ft, Saxon-style round tower would create ‘unsatisfactory visual impacts’.
Marriage proposals at Ed Sheeran ‘s concerts have become a trend, but how about this for a wedding venue?The pop superstar has revealed that the first marriage ceremony has been held at the newly built chapel at his Suffolk estate. Pictured: Artist’s impression of Ed Sheeran’s new chapel
‘I let other people enjoy it, like my security guard got married in my chapel and that was really lovely,’ says Sheeran, who does not disclose the name of his member of staff (stock image)
Sheeran (pictured), whose hits include Perfect and Thinking Out Loud, adds: ‘I know it sounds weird to build an infrastructure on your property, where you don’t have to build it, but there are certain intimate moments you just want to spend with your family and not have someone filming you when you do it’
The chapel which did win planning permission has a 25ft round tower and was described in documents as being a place where the Shape of You singer and his loved ones could ‘retreat for contemplation, prayer and relaxation’.
The 65ft long chapel, complete with a spiral staircase, is on the edge of the star’s estate – dubbed ‘Sheeranville’ by locals – close to his hometown of Framlingham.
Some neighbours objected to the building, stating that there were already enough churches in the area to serve residents.
But the singer won approval from East Suffolk Council. He was later given permission to add a 9ft by 6ft burial crypt – big enough to fit two bodies under a slab on the floor.
Sun, sea and knocking 60, Brooke’s a bikini bombshell
She made her name wearing little more than a loincloth in 1980s film The Blue Lagoon and Brooke Shields is keen to prove that she still looks good on a beach.
The Hollywood star, who turns 60 next month, has posted photographs online of her wearing a bikini designed by King Charles’s goddaughter India Hicks.
She made her name wearing little more than a loincloth in 1980s film The Blue Lagoon and Brooke Shields is keen to prove that she still looks good on a beach. The Hollywood star, who turns 60 next month, has posted photographs online of her wearing a bikini designed by King Charles’s goddaughter India Hicks
She says her two adult daughters, Rowan and Grier, have given her confidence to wear revealing swimwear.
‘I was wearing those big bathing suits that had as much fabric as possible,’ she says. ‘My daughters were, like, ‘Mum, it’s ridiculous’. It was sort of seeing myself through their eyes and just celebrating things like my butt.’
Why Vanessa is not a Meghan fan
Self-obsession makes the Duchess of Sussex a terrible interviewer, claims Vanessa Feltz.
Having listened to Meghan’s new podcast, the distinguished broadcaster tells me: ‘If I’m honest, it’s not very good. She needs to listen to the answers more.’
Self-obsession makes the Duchess of Sussex a terrible interviewer, claims Vanessa Feltz (pictured)
Speaking at Queen By Candlelight at the London Palladium, Feltz says: ‘Her podcast is supposed to be about women CEOs and entrepreneurs, but I didn’t learn anything from it.
Meghan speaks a lot about how she met them, and herself, but she needs to speak less about herself and stick to the actual topic
Aussie royalists buck republican trend
Monarchists are not taking Australia’s decision to omit King Charles from its A$5 banknotes lying down.
Queen Elizabeth’s portrait was on A$5 notes since 1992 but the Reserve Bank of Australia said last month that a new design would focus on recognising indigenous communities instead.
Now, the Australian Monarchist League has submitted this design, pictured, featuring the King alongside indigenous art work.
‘We can celebrate both the monarchy on our $5 note while also recognising indigenous Australians,’ insists league chairman Philip Benwell.
Fergie’s Easter nostalgia
Is Easter nostalgic for Sarah, Duchess of York?
I ask because a female acquaintance of Paddy McNally, the tycoon who was Fergie’s great love in the early 1980s, has been reminiscing.
At Easter, the pal says, McNally would have a chocolate rabbit made in Switzerland and flown to London.
‘It would get its own seat because it was so enormous,’ the chum tells Tatler, adding that, after McNally’s Easter lunch in Gloucestershire, children would gather round the bunny – and ‘run for cover’ as fireworks shot from its belly.
Slightly different from the entertainment at ‘Cocaine Castle’, as a Verbier chalet frequented by McNally’s set was known.
At home with Gemma
Actress Gemma Atkinson has two children with Strictly pro Gorka Marquez, but his love of a delicacy from his native Spain is causing a stink at home.
‘What he does – and it’s rank, I find it disgusting – the Spanish, they’re obsessed with ham, so he has a pig leg – it’s the thigh, it’s got the hoof on it with little bits of hair – and he has it on a stand,’ says Gemma, who’s vegetarian.
‘Every now and then he just walks past it, hacks a bit off, and just stands eating it. It’s awful.’
