What a Difference a Day Makes: 'I’ll never forget my future wife walking into my sights when I was 14'
Alex Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles, tells Helen O’Callaghan about the beautiful girl he met when he was 14 – and about meeting her many years later and realising she was the woman he wanted to marry.
Meeting and falling in love with my wife, Carina, there were two episodes, two 24-hour periods. I first met Carina when I was 14, which is weird because one of my sons, Rory, has reached that age now.
I was at the Feathers Ball in London — I was living there at the time with my mum, and a great Irish friend of mine, Sasha Sykes, basically told her friend to find me. Sasha was at school with Carina and she thought it would be good craic for us to meet. I don’t know if she could have foreseen the future, putting two kindred spirits together.
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