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Carrie Johnson

Caroline Louise Beavan Johnson (' Symonds'''; born 17 March 1988) is an English media consultant, a senior advisor to the ocean conservation charity Oceana, and a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. She is the third and current wife of politician Boris Johnson, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

Born due to an affair between Matthew Symonds, co-founder of ''The Independent,'' and Josephine McAfee (''née'' Lawrence), a lawyer, Symonds was raised by McAfee in East Sheen, southwest London. Educated at Godolphin and Latymer School and the University of Warwick, she earned a degree in Art History and Theatre Studies. In 2009, she began working as a press officer for the Conservative Party and rose to become the party's head of communications in 2018. In the same year, she began an affair with Johnson, then serving as Foreign Secretary, while he was still married to his second wife, Marina Wheeler. Later that year, Symonds left her role with the Conservative Party for a public relations job at Oceana. Johnson and Wheeler separated in September 2018, and Johnson was later reported to be living with Symonds at her flat in Camberwell, southeast London. In July 2019, after Johnson became Prime Minister, the couple moved to the flat above 11 Downing Street, making Symonds the first unmarried partner of a Prime Minister to officially reside in Downing Street.

In February 2020, shortly after Johnson agreed a divorce settlement with Wheeler, Symonds announced that she and Johnson had become engaged in late 2019 and that she was pregnant. She gave birth to their first child in April 2020. In January 2021, she began working in a senior communications role at the Aspinall Foundation, a wildlife charity. She and Johnson married in May 2021 at Westminster Cathedral, and subsequently had three more children together. Provided by Wikipedia