Kensington and Chelsea Register Office

Kensington and Chelsea Register Office is an office for the registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships located in Chelsea Old Town Hall in Chelsea, London.^[1] It has hosted the weddings of many notable people.^[2]

The old vestry hall in Chelsea Manor Gardens, part of the Chelsea Town Hall complex, the location of the register office, from Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911

According to The Independent, it is "still one of the hippest places to get married".^[2]

Notable people married there

• Neil Aspinall, music industry executive and Suzy Ornstein (1968)^[3]
• Lionel Blair, dancer and Susan Davis (1967)^[4]
• Marc Bolan, singer and June Child (1970)^[5]
• Pierce Brosnan, actor and Cassandra Harris, actress (1980)^[5]
• Nigel Dempster, journalist, and Lady Camilla Osborne (1977)^[6]
• Judy Garland, actress and Mickey Deans (1969)^[2]
• Hugh Grant, actor and Anna Eberstein (2018)^[5]
• James Joyce, author and Nora Barnacle (1933)^[7]
• Patsy Kensit, actress and Jim Kerr, musician, (1992)^[3]
• Bobby Moore, footballer and Stephanie Parlane (1991)^[5][8]
• Prince Pavlos of Greece and Marie-Chantal Miller (1995)^[3]
• Irving Penn, American photographer, and Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish fashion model (1950)^[9]
• Beth Rogan, actress and Tony Samuel, Shell oil heir and publisher (1962)^[10]
• Wallis Simpson, socialite and Ernest Simpson (1928)^[3]
• Sharon Tate, actress and Roman Polanski, film director (1968)^[11]
• Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, pop musicians (2008)^[12]
• Marco Pierre White, chef and Alex McArthur (1988)^[13]

References

1. "Kensington and Chelsea Register Office opening hours and location | Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea". www.rbkc.gov.uk.
2. Ian McCurrach (7 April 2006). "The 50 best wedding locations (1–25) | News & Advice | Travel". The Independent. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
3. "Chelsea Register Office Open Day at Chelsea Register Office | Chelsea London | London hotels". LondonTown.com. 10 February 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
4. Lionel Blair And Wife British actor and dancer Lionel Blair marries model Susan Davis at Kensington Register Office in London, 21st March 1967, gettyimages.co.uk, accessed 20 October 2021
5. "Kings Road wedding venue that has hosted celebrity nuptials from Judy Garland to Hugh Grant set to reopen after year-long renovation". 16 February 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
6. Willis, Tim (2010). Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion. Short Books. ISBN 978-1906021849.
7. Bowker, Gordon (2012). James Joyce: A New Biography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 419. ISBN 9780374178727. OCLC 802264865.
8. "Booby Moore". England Football Online. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
9. "Irving Penn". The Telegraph. 8 October 2009.
10. "Beth Rogan, actress - obituary". The Telegraph. 11 December 2015.
11. "The Swinging London Wedding of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate". The Vintage News. 28 July 2018.
12. "BBC – Pop singer Tracey Thorn on the best and worst of London life". BBC News. 30 March 2010. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
13. "The only woman I have ever truly loved". The Telegraph. 31 July 2006.

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