Stewart Scratches Seven-Year-Itch
June 26, 2007
Rod Stewart married his fiancée Penny Lancaster in a weekend wedding in Italy. Stewart and Lancaster have been an item for seven years, and have a 19 month-old son, Alistair. Stewart and his bride held a private ceremony at the Villa Durazzo, attended by just two witnesses, Lancaster’s parents. The day before the wedding, the couple held a large celebration at the Hotel Palace Excelsior in Rapallo, Italy as well as a reception, which followed the ceremony. Five of Stewart’s seven children attended the reception. Eldest daughter, Sarah Streeter, was reportedly not invited, and son Sean did not put in an appearance. This is the third wedding for the 62 year-old Stewart, and the first for Lancaster.
Streeter is Stewart’s eldest daughter, born to him and Susannah Boffey when the yet-to-be-famous singer was just 18 years old. Stewart abandoned mother and child after the baby’s birth, and Boffey gave up their daughter for adoption after just a few months as a single mother. Streeter was told the identity of her birth parents when she turned 18, but she and Stewart have never had a warm relationship. In interviews, Stewart acknowledges only six children, a point which has caused Streeter no small amount of pain.
Weddings can be very good at generating awkward moments and resurrecting fractured family relationships. Everything, from who gets invited, to where guests are seated and whose names appear on the invitation, is up in the air, and sadly, it falls on the shoulders of the bride and groom to sort things out, and help keep the peace.
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