Friendship is the muse. When Eddie Redmayne first met Hannah Bagshawe, they weren’t even contemplating getting married — they had been merely youngsters at neighboring faculties.
Earlier than he was an actor, Redmayne attended Eton Faculty alongside Prince William, and the boys of their class had been invited to a neighborhood all-girls faculty to assist with a charity trend present. Whereas the occasion was awkward, it ended with a meet-cute worthy of Hollywood.
“It was an embarrassing night,” he recalled to the Day by day Mail in 2014. “I needed to stroll throughout the stage topless — I used to be this pasty, freckly man and once I got here on the ladies within the viewers didn’t take a lot discover of me, however I used to be adopted by the best-looking boy within the faculty and all the ladies erupted in cheers, which was emotionally scarring!”
Fortunately, one thing nice got here out of the night time — the Implausible Beasts star met his future spouse. “I noticed Hannah throughout the room at a celebration afterward and he or she was very lovely and really humorous and he or she loves the humanities and theatre simply as I do, so we turned associates,” Redmayne defined.
Bagshawe, a PR govt in finance, remained his pal for greater than a decade. The whole lot modified when Redmayne was about to start out filming Les Miserables and invited the College of Edinburgh alum to journey to Italy with him.
“Earlier than I went, Hannah and I had been on a kind of date — we’d been good associates for 12 years — and we had a beautiful night and I abruptly mentioned, ‘You don’t wish to come to Florence with me subsequent week, do you?’ She mentioned, ‘That’s absurd, you don’t imply it.’ I mentioned, ‘Sure I do!’ So our first correct date was in Florence,” he mentioned, including that the 2 “couldn’t be happier” on the time.
After a few years collectively, the Concept of The whole lot actor requested his girlfriend to marry him in Could 2014 whereas on trip. “He had been planning on it for some time,” an insider advised Us Weekly on the time. “They’ve a really relaxed and supportive relationship … they appeared to have at all times identified they had been going to spend the remainder of their lives collectively.”
The duo wed in an intimate ceremony on the Babington Home in Somerset, England, in December 2014, his rep confirmed to Us. The candlelit ceremony had a “Winter Wonderland” theme, however the Oscar winner later revealed that the bride’s monitor file had lots of their friends nervous.
“She has by no means been on time for something in her life,” Redmayne mentioned throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present a month after exchanging vows. “She was a superb half-hour late. Her grandfather needed to be some assist from going and summoning her.”
He added, “Everybody else was actually confused, however I used to be sort of relaxed realizing that she’d by no means been on time for just about something in her life.” The 2 loved their honeymoon in The Alps after they mentioned “I do.”
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