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James Blunt<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>became an instant sensation when his album Back to Bedlam<\/em> hit shelves in 2004<\/em>. With his massive hit \u201cYou\u2019re Beautiful,\u201d the shaggy-haired former British soldier had legions of women in the U.K., U.S., and beyond pining the pure and earnest romance the song exuded. Other equally romantic songs followed, including the tear-inducing \u201cGoodbye My Lover\u201d and catchy \u201cSame Mistake\u201d followed, and the hitmaker\u2019s star rose rapidly.<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t hurt that then-\u201cit girl\u201d Mischa Barton<\/strong><\/a> made a surreal starring appearance in his dreamy \u201cGoodbye My Lover\u201d video, and before long news emerged that he was dating supermodel Petra Nemcova.\u00a0<\/strong>They famously dated between 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n Seven years later, he married Sofia Wellesley<\/strong>, a woman of noble pedigree, and they\u2019ve since welcomed children and retreated into a private existence. \u201cPeople have always asked me, \u2018When are you going to settle down?\u2019 And I\u2019m lucky to have met someone who worked at a higher tempo than me and instead of \u00adsettling down, I had to speed up. I wish I could say I was still in the Ibiza clubs all the time,\u201d James perviously told The Sun<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>while promoting his new album Who We Used to Be<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 2013, James told the Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, \u201cWhat I will say is that I\u2019m very happy at the moment with Sofia. It takes a strong person to be able to deal with somebody working in music. It\u2019s hard when you\u2019re with somebody and you become embroiled in something just because you were seen standing next to someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n More than 10 years later, James told fans that he\u2019d change his name to whatever they wanted if his album charted at the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything to know about the marriage of James and Sofia.<\/p>\n The beautiful Sofia catapulted James from simple fame to upper-crust status. That\u2019s because she\u2019s the daughter of Lord John Henry Wellesley<\/strong> and Lady Corinne Vaes,<\/strong> and the granddaughter of the late Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington.<\/strong> It\u2019s a mouthful, to be sure, and there\u2019s a reason for that \u2014 Sofia\u2019s family titles have meant rubbing shoulders with the British aristocracy, including Prince Harry<\/strong> <\/a>and Meghan Markle<\/a>.<\/strong> In fact, the couple scored a coveted invite to Harry and Meghan\u2019s massive royal wedding in 2018.<\/p>\n James and Sofia were engaged in December of 2013. Per Us Weekly<\/em><\/a>, they married in a private ceremony in London on September 5, 2014, followed by a lavish but intimate celebration with close family and friends in Majorca on September 19.<\/p>\n According to E! News<\/em><\/a>, the wedding took place at the estate of Marsana, which is owned by property owned by Sofia\u2019s mother. The bride wore a stunning long sleeved lace gown, and they were photographed happily leaving the grounds together in a bronze VW convertible, with the top down.<\/p>\n While James has a cadre of hits under his belt, Sofia brought plenty of her accomplishments to the marriage. She completed law school at the highly prestigious Edinburgh University \u2014 Pippa Middleton<\/strong>\u2018s alma mater. She has worked as a legal consultant for a law firm in London.<\/p>\n Sofia and James have two children together \u2014 both are sons, and the eldest has very famous godparents. Ed Sheeran<\/strong><\/a> is his godfather, while the late Carrie Fisher<\/strong><\/a> was the godmother. Little is known about the famous couples\u2019 sons, but in a rare interview, the hitmaker opened up about his life as a father.<\/p>\n \u201cI keep my private life private and yet write these deeply personal songs,\u201d he said in a 2020 interview, explaining that his song \u201cMonsters\u201d is about putting someone to bed. \u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s about putting someone to bed,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce upon a time my father put me to bed, read me a story. And now it\u2019s my turn to put him to bed and I recognize that only because of the way I put my own children to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n The couple tragically suffered the loss of a child that James sings about in the song \u201cThe Girl That Never Was\u201d from his new new album. \u201cThe balance of emotion is tough,\u201d he said in an interview with the\u00a0BBC<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s women who go through the main trauma, and the rest of us have to work out how best to help. I don\u2019t always know the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n James told The Sun<\/em>, \u201cThe song that means the most is \u2018The Girl That Never Was\u2019 and I\u2019ve talked about how we can relate. We all have ambitions to start families at some point \u2013 sometimes we have success and sometimes we struggle, which is what the song is about.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t<\/div>\n![\"James](\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/james-blunt-wife-embed.jpg?quality=100&resize=620%2C833\")
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