Sam Mendes has married his musician fiancée Alison Balsom (each pictured)
With secrecy befitting the director of James Bond movies Spectre and Skyfall, Sam Mendes has obtained married to classical musician Alison Balsom.
Some buddies didn't even know that Mendes, 51, who has a son with Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Kate Winslet, was engaged to the glamorous 38-year-old trumpeter.
'The couple had a blessing,' mentioned the Rev Ginny Thomas, who carried out the church service on the weekend at St Michael & All Angels, in Nice Tew, Oxfordshire.
'The marriage had been held beforehand at a register workplace. That's all I can say.'
Oscar-winner Mendes was married for seven years till 2010 to Titanic star Winslet, 41, whereas Balsom separated in 2011 from her long-term boyfriend, the highest conductor Edward Gardner, 42. Gardner, a former music director of the English Nationwide Opera, now lives in Norway.
Mendes has a 13-year-old son, Joe, with Winslet, whereas Balsom has a six-year-old son, Charlie, with Gardner.
The Day by day Mail Diary disclosed final October that Mendes was having fun with a romance with Balsom. The couple had been reported to be transferring right into a home the trumpeter had purchased for £1.9 million by the seaside in Dorset.
'It's the speak of the village,' one among Mendes's new neighbours mentioned on the time. 'They've moved right here as a result of Alison loves crusing and is eager to show Sam.'
Builder's daughter Balsom purchased the 300-year-old former rectory in her title alone. The enticing indifferent four-bedroom house is just some hundred yards from the seashore.
It was revealed final 12 months that glamorous trumpeter Balsom (pictured), 38, and Bond director Mendes, 51, had been courting and had been planning to maneuver into her £1.9m Dorset dwelling collectively
The couple had been married at a register workplace earlier than holding a blessing at St Michael & All Angels Church, in Nice Tew, Oxfordshire (pictured)
Yesterday a spokesman for Mendes instructed the Mail: 'I can affirm Sam and Alison are married.'
Final November, Cambridge-educated Mendes accompanied Balsom to Buckingham Palace, the place she collected her OBE for companies to music from Prince Charles.
Mendes break up up with Hollywood actress Rebecca Corridor in 2015. The 34-year-old star of flicks Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Iron Man three is the daughter of celebrated theatre director Sir Peter Corridor.
Mendes has a son with Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Kate Winslet (each pictured in 2005)
Earlier than his marriage to Winslet, Mendes loved romances with Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz and Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart.
Winslet lives additional alongside the South Coast along with her third husband Ned Rocknroll, who modified his title by deed ballot from Ned Abel Smith and is a nephew of Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson. The couple have a three-year-old son.
Winslet's third baby is her 16-year-old daughter from her first marriage, to movie director Jim Threapleton.
Earlier than his marriage to Winslet, Mendes loved romances with Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz (left) and Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart (proper)
Balsom, who attended a complete college in Hertfordshire, has spoken up to now about her combat to show herself as a result of she is a girl within the very male-dominated brass part.
'I've all the time performed the trumpet. And I've all the time been a lady,' she instructed the Day by day Mail in 2009. 'Orchestral brass gamers might be very macho, with an intimidating group mentality.'
She added: 'I've obtained this factor about not displaying an excessive amount of leg, not being too girlie, after I'm enjoying the trumpet. Anyway, it wouldn't be applicable for the Haydn.'
Yesterday Balsom's spokesman mentioned the trumpeter didn't want to remark additional in regards to the marriage ceremony.
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