Steve Jobs's daughter Eve marries Harry Charles in glamorous Cotswolds wedding
The bride, the youngest daughter of the late tech titan Steve Jobs, seems to be steering clear of the press during the multi-million pound celebrations. Neither she nor the groom has been spotted at the Cotswolds church where onlookers gathered. They are thought to have used a secret door to avoid being photographed.
The ceremony was held at St Michael and All Angels Church in Great Tew, within striking distance of the Beckhams' £12 million home and Soho Farmhouse. Some high-profile guests are thought to be staying at the rural outpost of the well-known members' club, where the Duchess of Sussex reportedly held her hen party.
Eve's nine bridesmaids, who included Bruce Springsteen's daughter Jessica, and Bill Gates's youngest daughter Phoebe, were pictured in matching silky red gowns.
The church was decorated with floral displays featuring orbs of red roses, beech branches and Persian rugs, as well as a tent-like structure of red curtains that allegedly caused havoc with the church bell ropes.
The reception is to be held at Estelle Manor, a country house 'companion' to Mayfair members' club Maison Estelle, located on an 85-acre Oxfordshire estate.
The star-studded guest list includes high-profile names from sport and media, as well as a smattering of royalty and politicians for good measure.
Kamala Harris, the former US vice-president and a friend of Eve's mother Laurene Powell Jobs, was seen at early celebrations on Thursday night at The Bull in Charlbury, a popular pub noted in the Michelin Guide. Princess Beatrice and Elton John are also expected, with the latter thought to be performing at the wedding (for a rumoured fee of £1 million).
Adding to the billionaire scions contingent was Sofia Abramovich, daughter of ex-Chelsea owner Roman.
And what would a super-wedding be without a Kardashian or two? Kourtney, the oldest of the Kardashian siblings, posted an Instagram carousel from the Cotswolds on Friday.
Eve Jobs and Harry Charles began dating in 2022, making their public debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Here, Charles, the Hampshire-born son of showjumping gold medallist Peter Charles, won gold with his father's former teammates Scott Brash and Ben Maher.
Eve shares her husband's equestrian interests; a showjumper in her own right, she once ranked as the fifth-best rider under 25 in the world, according to Horse Sport. She's also a Stanford graduate and model who has appeared in high-profile campaigns for Louis Vuitton, walked the catwalk for Coperni in Paris and graced the cover of Vogue Japan.
It's been widely reported that Eve, along with her siblings Reed, 33, and Erin, 29, have not inherited their father's fortune. At the time of his death in 2011, Steve Jobs's net worth was said to exceed $10bn, which passed to his wife Laurene via shares of Apple and the Walt Disney Company.
Speaking to The New York Times after her husband's death, she said: 'I'm not interested in legacy wealth building, and my children know that [...] Steve wasn't interested in that. If I live long enough, it ends with me.'
Weddings, it seems, are an exception. This one is rumoured to have a price tag of £5 million, with the input of glamorous events planner Stanlee Gatti. Gatti, whose clients include Elton John, is no stranger to billionaire heiresses, having planned Ivy Getty's (great granddaughter of oil tycoon J Paul Getty) star-studded San Francisco wedding in 2021.
'From experience, the most complex element in the planning of ultra-high-net-worth weddings is guest management and experience,' says wedding planner and founder of Sauveur Studios, Matthew Shaw.
'Contrary to popular belief, planning for such weddings is not all about wild and outlandish requests; most of our time is spent running through complex yet considered plans. The planner will usually also take on the role of travel agent and concierge to ensure guest travel is organised, accommodation is arranged, and any questions are answered.'
It must have been a Herculean task, with fleets of security and service staff spotted by Cotswolds locals throughout the weekend.
The AONB is a natural choice for this society wedding, known as much for its popularity with A-listers as its bucolic scenery. The Beckhams and Ellen DeGeneres have houses in the Cotswolds (though the latter is for sale), while Kate Moss, Lily Allen and Liz Hurley have celebrated various nuptials throughout its chocolate box villages.
Like those memorable occasions, the Jobs-Charles wedding will likely join the annals of marital history. Only time will tell whether the couple at its centre will prove more longstanding.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
BBC News
31 minutes ago
- BBC News
Cropredy primary pupils to perform at the Fairport Convention
Primary school pupils are preparing to perform at an annual folk-rock County Council's music service is helping the pupils of Cropredy Church of England Primary School in Oxfordshire to learn about local history through music connections ahead of a performance at the Fairport's Cropredy for the event, which takes place 7-9 August, is only part of headteacher Will Reeves's plan to give the school's curriculum a musical Reeves said the pupils had been "missing an opportunity" by not learning about folk music and he "was determined to change that". The council said pupils had been learning about local history through subtle music connections, such as Red and Gold by British folk-rock band Fairport lyrics are about the Battle of Cropredy Bridge in 1644, during the English Civil War, when Parliamentary soldiers failed in their attempt to capture King Charles humanities have been transformed too, with children learning about the canal system that flows through the village."Our young people were missing an opportunity by not learning about folk music, which is a huge part of the Cropredy community, I was determined to change that," Mr Reeves said"Supported by the county council's brilliant peripatetic folk teacher and singer, Katie Harris, I shared my dream of the school's children playing at a major event."He added that thanks to their contacts and shared vision, some of their pupils would be performing in front of more than 6,000 people at the Gaul, the council's cabinet member for children and young people, said the school had taken music education "to another level". "Here music is central to the whole learning and development experience."I congratulate the headteacher and his team for having the foresight and determination to turn a vision into reality for the benefit of young people." You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Justin Baldoni celebrates 12th wedding anniversary with wife Emily... amid ongoing Blake Lively legal drama
Justin Baldoni took to Instagram on Sunday to celebrate his 12th wedding anniversary. The 41-year-old actor — who is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with Blake Lively — paid tribute to his wife Emily Baldoni by sharing a throwback photo from their special day. He wrote in the caption, 'I'd marry you again and again and again and again… Happy anniversary my love. T W E L V E. ❤️.' And for her part, Emily posted a more recent photo of them, taken by their 10-year-old daughter Maiya. She also spelled out the number 12 and added, 'Still madly in love with you ❤️.'
Times
6 hours ago
- Times
Grumpy Britain needs the Geldof treatment
America's summertime invasion is well under way. The commander-in-chief is leading from the front, touring his golf courses in Scotland. His vice-president is reportedly preparing to establish a beachhead in the Cotswolds. Protected by their entourages, the Britain they will encounter resembles the Hollywood fantasy of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. But if they really want to understand their ally, the Britain they need to meet lives next door to the grumpy, miserable Victor Meldrew of One Foot in the Grave. That's not on anyone's schedule right now. The wedding of Eve Jobs, daughter of the late Apple boss, took place in the church of St Michael & All Angels, near Chipping Norton, on Saturday. A former vice-president, Kamala Harris, and a stream of liberal multimillionaires mingled with a Springsteen or two and at least one Kardashian. Even if we don't matter that much any more, we remain irresistibly cute to our transatlantic cousins. • Eve Jobs and Harry Charles marry in 'quaint corner' of the Cotswolds The Hollywood landscape of Merrie England, with its kings, queens, thatched cottages, rolling hills, baffling titles, jolly peasants and strolling troubadours (Elton John played the wedding party) is the stuff of countless movies. No wonder Americans are confused by the reality. As far back as 1942, US troops stationed in Britain were cautioned not to be misled by the British 'tendency to be soft-spoken and polite… the English language didn't spread across the oceans and over the mountains and jungles and swamps of the world because these people were panty-waists'. A generation of American friends whistled along to Bing Crosby, William Bendix and Cedric Hardwicke tramping along the lanes whistling Busy Doing Nothing in the film version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee… This, perhaps, is the Britain for which Mr Trump feels most affinity; a world of wise and virtuous monarchs, of chivalrous heroes and moustachioed villains, of valiant knights and, above all, of a deferential, complaisant people. His periodic visits to Turnberry and his other properties must feel in some way like a replay of the 1954 Gene Kelly movie Brigadoon, about a bewitched Scottish village so perfect that its inhabitants contrive to ensure it only appears to the rest of the world for one day every 100 years or so, lest its dreamy heaven be changed by cold reality. Sequestered in his own personal Brigadoon, the president is unlikely to come face to face with the true mood of our nation. Just as well. As the old saying goes, the peasants are revolting. And so are the apprentices. And the apothecaries. And the squires. Even the knights are uneasy. Britain is in a sour state: angry and disillusioned — less Camelot, more Meldrew's Tresillian Way. Living standards are declining, public service productivity plummeting, utilities unreliable and expensive. Our waterways are filthy. The public's faith in the health service is failing; and even though crime is falling, citizens say they feel no safer. A Sunday Times survey of the nation's mood published at the weekend makes unhappy reading for Sir Keir Starmer's ministers. The burning fuse of small boats in the Channel remains smouldering, with record numbers crossing this year. Six in ten of us think the French government simply isn't keeping its side of the very expensive bargain. Sixty-nine per cent share Trump's view that we, like the US, should forget about the deal and deploy our own troops to stem the tide. He sent the Marines and cut crossings by 90 per cent; both the Reform leader Nigel Farage and the Blue Labour guru Maurice Glasman want the Royal Navy to blockade the Channel. The protests against the siting of asylum hotels in Epping, Norwich and Diss have been disturbing, though not yet on the scale of those triggered by the atrocity in Southport a year ago this week. But the admission by a senior Labour MP that the Home Office and local authorities are competing for accommodation to house healthy, young, male asylum seekers and homeless single-parent families is a powder keg waiting to explode. The unrest comes against a deeper background of disillusion. The generation now leaving university is the first in perhaps 200 years who cannot expect to have a higher standard of living than their parents, even though their educational attainments are dramatically greater. The totemic British adult milestone, the purchase of your own home with a mortgage, has now become unattainable for many, even for the children of middle-class parents. In 2004, more than half of us owned our own homes by the age of 32. That age is now 36, and climbing. The decision last week to announce a pensions review signals that the actuaries have done their work and retirement age will increase for those at work. People in their twenties are now contemplating working well into their seventies. Or forever. Anger, of course, does not have to be a bad thing. It is often the catalyst for action. But that transformation demands leadership, vision and poetry. We've seen it happen before. A brilliant three-part documentary series produced by one of the great film-makers of our time, Norma Percy, recounts the way in which Bob Geldof's explosion of rage at the fate of children in Ethiopia galvanised a generation and created Band Aid and Live Aid. The old campaigner has once again entered the lists, this time on behalf of the starving children of Gaza. Interviewing him over the weekend, I was reminded that sometimes words can make a difference, especially when put together by a poet like Geldof. You do not have to take sides to be moved by his vivid evocation of 'the IDF… dangling food in front of starving, panicked, exhausted mothers' or 'children … taking a teaspoonful of salt and as much water as they can drink to fill their bellies'. It is hard to contest Geldof's dismissal of the demand by 200 MPs for recognition of a Palestinian state as virtue-signalling. I have little doubt that his sheer moral authority will have contributed to the Israeli decision to allow more aid into Gaza and to agree to 'tactical pauses' in the fighting. But Geldof's righteous anger is a rare thing in British politics. Instead we get the bluster of government which comes down to little more than noise-making in the hope that something will turn up; and the grandstanding opportunism of opposition manoeuvring to escape responsibility. And I cannot right now name the poet in our politics capable of summoning up the words to turn our nation's rage into a positive, uplifting vision. Nor, I suppose, can you.
