Miranda Hart delighted fans when she announced that she had got married in secret at 52.
But the Call The Midwife star gave no particulars about the wedding or her husband, later named as Richard Fairs, 60, a surveyor.
She has now disclosed that the Sound of Music classic Climb Every Mountain was sung by the guests during the wedding.
Speaking to Radio 3 show Private Passions, she said: ‘We sang it at our very small wedding. ‘Initially, it was, like, ‘Are we really going to do this? It’s such a naff idea.’
‘And the minute everyone started singing, people got so emotional and were really going for it with the beauty of the song.’
She added: ‘Now it just makes me cry, and makes me think of the happiest day of my life as well.’
Miranda admitted that before meeting Richard, she had ‘given up’ on the idea of ever tying the knot.
She said: ‘It makes me think of the recent joy of getting married, which I had sort of given up on the possibility of, and also the young me dreaming. I’ve always been a dreamer. It’s very emotional.’
MailOnline announced in October that Miranda and Richard had exchanged vows last July at a 1,000-year-old church in the scenic Hampshire village of Hambledon, attended only by a handful of family and close friends, all of whom were sworn to secrecy.
‘Miranda Hart did get married in St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church,’ the vicar of the 11th-century church, Reverend Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Quinn said. ‘But I am not going to discuss anything about it because Miranda has released everything she wants to be known about her marriage and her wedding in her book. And I am not going to go against her wishes.’
Recognised as one of the most stunning villages in the South Downs National Park, Hambledon has become the base of Miranda’s close-knit family.
Seven years ago, her mother, Diana and father, retired Royal Navy Commander David Hart Dyke, purchased a stunning mansion there. Later, her sister Alice, with whom she is very close, moved in next door.
Miranda shocked fans when she revealed that she had got married over the summer – after she started dating a mystery man who removed mould from her home in 2020.
He was subsequently revealed to be a divorcee, Richard, after he was shown picking her up from the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October, 24 hours after she revealed his first name on The Graham Norton Show.
Miranda admitted she immediately ‘fell in love’ with Richard ‘there and then,’ just moments after they first met in real life.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast in December, she said: ‘The way we met was quite extraordinary. At the beginning of the book [her autobiography], I had this real longing not to be alone anymore, and I admitted that to myself.
‘It was quite a pain because when we long for what we want, it’s at a time where we don’t have it, so admitting that to yourself is a painful time. I was in my forties and single.
‘And then we met because part of my illness was that I was allergic to mould in my house. You couldn’t write it. I lost my house, I had to leave my house.’
She explained that Richard was the project manager coming to sort out the building works and remove the mould.
Miranda said: ‘I was out of the house and a friend was dealing with it all because I couldn’t be there, and we met on the final day of the works being done. I think I could say we fell in love there and then.’
She remained tight-lipped about her husband’s identity before it was announced, referring to him only as ‘The Boy’ or ‘The Mould Man’ in her new book, I Haven’t Been Completely Honest With You.
But she revealed that they got engaged in January during a trip to Kew Gardens in west London after admitting they had ‘fallen hopelessly in love with each other’.
Miranda hinted slightly at his appearance, describing her new husband as a ‘salt-and-pepper greying hair look on a fine-featured man’.
Admittedly, I enjoy Miranda Hart; she’s hilarious, and I’m delighted that she’s finally found true happiness, but on saying that, there have been some terrible comments made about her, and those who have made inappropriate comments about her should remember that she’s someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, and they all have feelings.
It just goes to show that you can find your better half at any time, it doesn’t matter how old you are.
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