{"id":1892,"date":"2025-11-29T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:51:29","slug":"australian-prime-minister-albanese-marries-girlfriend-in-private-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Australian Prime Minister Albanese marries girlfriend in private ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his girlfriend Jodie Haydon on Saturday, becoming the country\u2019s first leader to tie the knot while in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A beaming Albanese, 62, wed the financial services worker at a private ceremony in the garden of his official residence in Canberra, The Lodge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yemi Alade - Tomorrow (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4u2yMsPdG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMarried\u201d, the prime minister said in a one-word post on social media with video of him in a bow-tie holding the hand of his smiling bride, who wore a long, white dress, as confetti showered down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate joint statement, the couple said: \u201cWe are absolutely delighted to share our love and commitment to spending our future lives together, in front of our family and closest friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony took place more than a year after Albanese proposed on Valentine\u2019s Day 2024, saying at the time he had found a partner \u201cwho I want to spend the rest of my life with\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They wrote their own vows and were married by a celebrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albanese\u2019s dog, a shaggy cavoodle named Toto, was the ring bearer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the ceremony, where guests drank beer from a Sydney brewery, the couple walked down the aisle to Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u201cSigned, Sealed, Delivered (I\u2019m Yours).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newlyweds are to go on a five-day honeymoon in Australia from Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister \u2014 who divorced his previous wife in 2019 and has an adult son, Nathan \u2014 met Haydon more than five years ago at a Melbourne business dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The centre-left Labor Party leader secured a second three-year term in office in a landslide election victory in May this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined Labor while in high school and later became deeply involved in the bruising world of student politics at the University of Sydney. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2025\/11\/australian-prime-minister-albanese-marries-girlfriend-in-private-ceremony\/\">(Vanguard)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his girlfriend Jodie Haydon on Saturday, becoming the country\u2019s first leader to tie the knot while in office. 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