Anthony Albanese could marry his wife Jodie Haydon earlier than expected, so his fiancée’s grandmother won’t have to miss the ceremony.
Mr Albanese, 61, will marry Ms Haydon, 45, next year. The couple have yet to give a specific date.
It has now emerged that the couple are under pressure from Haydon’s 94-year-old grandmother to bring the wedding forward.
She has expressed concerns that she may not be able to attend the ceremony if it is held too late. Daily Telegraph reported.
Although Mr Albanese would not reveal whether he would move the date of the ceremony, he did admit that he did not yet know what he would wear, and that he considered his relationship with his in-laws more important than a wedding.
Ms Haydon’s family live on the Central Coast in NSW and the wedding is likely to take place privately, but may take place after the election.
No date has been announced yet for the elections, but they are reportedly set to take place in May.
The couple announced their engagement with a loved-up selfie on social media on February 15, a day after Albanese proposed on Valentine’s Day.
Anthony Albanese could marry his partner Jodie Haydon earlier than expected so his fiancée’s grandmother doesn’t have to miss the ceremony
“She said yes,” he wrote.
It is the first time an Australian prime minister has become engaged while still in office.
In a joint statement, the couple said: “We are extremely happy and excited to share this news and look forward to spending the rest of our lives together.”
“We are so happy we found each other.”
The pair met at a business dinner in Melbourne in 2020 when Albanese asked the crowd if any South Sydney fans were there. Finance officer Haydon, who lives in his constituency of Grayndler, shouted: ‘Up the Rabbitohs’.
Later he introduced himself and they decided to go for a drink when they got back to Sydney.
He seduced his new girlfriend with a night out at Young Henrys Brewery in Newtown.
“We had what I thought would just be a drink at Young Henrys in Newtown, and we got on really well. That’s how it started,” he told Women’s Weekly.
Meeting Ms Haydon and finding love again is a very different story to New Year’s Day 2019, when Mr Albanese’s wife of 30 years and married for 19, Carmel Tebbutt, told him she was leaving him.
“It was a shock to me. We had had a lovely night the night before – New Year’s Eve – so there was no warning at all,” Mr Albanese said.
No date has been announced for the elections yet, but it is known that they will take place in May.
Anthony Albanese seen with his ex-wife Carmel Tubbutt (pictured) less than three months before their marriage split
After traveling to Europe alone to meet friends, do some sightseeing and reflect on his failed marriage, he decided to accept his ex-wife’s decision.
“I tried to understand what had happened to my relationship and through that I realized that I shouldn’t try to understand it, I should accept it,” he said.
“It happened, it was her decision, there was nothing I could do about it.”
Albanese returned to Australia feeling renewed and worked hard for the 2019 election, which was lost to Labor’s Bill Shorten.
The prime minister decided ‘immediately’ that he would run for the country’s highest office.
Mr Albanese said he was also certain about something else: that he would not find another woman, because Carmel was still “the love of my life” at the time.
