He’s the second of the eight offspring Lord Moyne fathered by three different women and has, himself, one previous marriage behind him, while his bride’s acting career has included a convincing performance as a sex addict in the ITV drama Cracker.
So Valentine Guinness, 65, and Vanya Eadie, 58, were never likely to play it entirely safe when they married this week at Marylebone Town Hall, with a reception held afterwards in the Orangery in London’s Holland Park.
But though prepared to tempt fate by posting video clips online accompanied by Natalie Cole’s This Will Be (Everlasting Love), the couple were certainly more restrained than some of Valentine’s old friends from Oxford University might have predicted.
While there in the late 1970s, he helped establish the Piers Gaveston – affectionately known as ‘the Gav’ – a society of uninhibited males who cavorted in fishnet stockings and suspender belts at parties where pretty well anything went
Valentine Guinness, ex-husband of fashion designer Lulu Guinness and founder of Oxford University’s decadent Piers Gaveston society gets married to Vanya Eadie
The happy couple were pictured smiling on their big day
Valentine’s 27-year marriage to handbag designer Lulu Guinness ended in 2013 (pictured together in 1998)
Lulu Guinness with her Husband Valentine Guinness at a party at St. Martin’s Lane Hotel on January 19, 2004
A young Hugh Grant was among their number. But there was no sign of Hughie at this week’s celebration – nor of an exposed suspender belt.
Instead, Valentine, whose 27-year marriage to handbag designer Lulu Guinness ended in 2013, was decorously attired in a sky-blue suit – a sartorial upgrade from when he, as lead singer, and adenoidal Loyd Grossman, on guitar, perform at Glastonbury in their band, The New Forbidden.
