Carrie Symonds

Carrie Symonds

Carrie Symonds is a British political activist, conservationist, and fiancée of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson. She is the first unmarried partner of a Prime Minister to reside in 10 Downing Street. Symonds and Johnson announced that they became engaged in late 2019 and were expecting a baby in mid-2020.

About Carrie Symonds in brief

Summary Carrie SymondsCarrie Symonds is a British political activist, conservationist, and fiancée of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson. She is the first unmarried partner of a Prime Minister to reside in 10 Downing Street. She works as a senior advisor to ocean conservation charity Oceana. In 2007, aged 19, Symonds was driven home from a King’s Road nightclub by taxi-driver John Worboys, who in 2009 was convicted of multiple sexual assaults on his passengers.

She waived her anonymity to talk about her experiences and, later, to campaign against his early release. She reportedly began an affair with British politician Boris Johnson, then the Foreign Secretary, in 2018 while he was still married to his second wife, Marina Wheeler. Symonds and Johnson announced that they became engaged in late 2019 and were expecting a baby in mid-2020. Their son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson, was born on 29 April 2020.