Anonymous ID: 81acbb June 19, 2021, 6:42 p.m. No.13941600   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1648 >>1698

 

Who is Boris Johnson’s first wife, former Tatler cover girl Allegra Mostyn-Owen?

 

Who is the glamorous university girlfriend who became the wife of our freshly appointed British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson?

 

Allegra Mostyn-Owen was Boris Johnson’s university girlfriend and his first wife – 32 years ago. The pair were part of the ‘bright young things’ of the Oxford university elite, a golden, glossy, head-turning double act.

 

Allegra, the Italian for ‘joyful’ or ‘lively’, a word that is used to annotate uplifting music, was allegedly ‘not’ the state she was in following (and during) her marriage to Johnson. A union that lasted six years, between 1987 and 1993, when the couple divorced.

 

The Daily Mail described the wedding ‘as a cross between La Dolce Vita and Brideshead Revisited’. Allegra was the captivating daughter of art historian and Christie’s auction house Chairman, the millionaire William Mostyn-Owen and his Italian writer wife, Gaia Servadio. The family seat was Woodhouse, a grade-II-listed estate in Shropshire. The house was their wedding venue – when Allegra wove flowers through her hair and Johnson arrived with neither trousers nor shoes.

 

If you rewind back to the time of their meeting, Johnson was the Old Etonian President of the Union who had been awarded the Brackenbury Scholarship of Balliol for academic excellence – and Allegra was his mythological prize.

 

Allegra would reportedly later consider the day of their wedding, ‘the end of their relationship rather than the beginning.’

 

https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-boris-johnsons-first-wife-allegra-mostyn-owen