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‘We were painfully shy around each other in the beginning,’ she says, laughing, ‘but once we had overcome that, we realised that we were really meant to be together – he’s very romantic.’Ī high-profile wedding followed in 2019 at York Minster, and a reception at one of England’s most majestic stately homes, Castle Howard Sienna Miller, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, and James Blunt and Sofia Wellesley were among the 300 guests. A few months later, the pair had a couple of dates in London, and Caspar took her around some galleries. ‘I was exhausted that night,’ Goulding confesses, ‘and I almost didn’t go.’ Thankfully she did. There she met Caspar Jopling, a 6ft 5in Old Etonian and Harvard graduate – also an accomplished oarsman who was picked to row for Oxford in the cancelled 2020 Boat Race. She was living alone and dating, but not seriously, and was invited to a dinner by a friend. More momentous still was what began in 2018, when she was in New York for a short spell at the end of a tour. I had never sung at a wedding before, and of course you feel nervous in any intimate setting like that, much more so than being on stage.’ It was, she adds, ‘very special’ – as it was to sing for the Obamas at the White House just seven months later. It was a big secret and testament to my band and everyone around me that we managed to keep it that way. ‘They were fans of my music and asked me to perform. ‘It was just a whirlwind at the time,’ she says.
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So substantial was Goulding’s popularity and so wide-reaching her appeal that she was invited to sing at the royal wedding reception for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. But it’s a work in progress: ‘We’ve done a lot to the house,’ says Goulding, ‘and we’re still working on it.’ We settle down in what will eventually become Caspar’s study and meeting room for now, other than a large sofa opposite the fireplace and a couple of black-and-white Gilbert & George artworks, it’s unfurnished, with packing boxes and pictures propped up around the room. ‘It just had something really enchanting about it.’ Enchanting it is: the kitchen leads into a high-ceilinged sitting area with a wooden dining table, comfy sofas and bookshelves lining the back wall. ‘It was the first house we saw,’ says Goulding. Her husband, the handsome art dealer Caspar Jopling, 29, is standing in his workout gear in the large open-plan kitchen, busy on the phone, while their baby son, Arthur, is sleeping peacefully in the corner. Her new home is in an idyllic Gloucestershire village and, when we meet, 34-year-old Goulding is already on the go, arranging an online barre class with a teacher in LA for later that afternoon.