{"id":14687,"date":"2015-04-24T02:50:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/articles\/alan-rickmans-secret-wedding-to-teenage-sweetheart\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:40:36","slug":"alan-rickmans-secret-wedding-to-teenage-sweetheart","status":"publish","type":"uk-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/alan-rickmans-secret-wedding-to-teenage-sweetheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Rickman&#8217;s secret wedding to teenage sweetheart"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37887\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37887\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.easyweddings.com\/files\/2021\/10\/29040020\/Rickman-weds.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Rickman and long-time love Rima Horton. Image: F**kYeahRickman via Tumblr\" width=\"700\" height=\"1063\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Rickman and long-time love Rima Horton. Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahrickman.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">F**kYeahRickman via Tumblr<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Actor Alan Rickman wed is his partner of nearly 50 years, Rima Horton, in secret last year.<\/p>\n<p>Rickman, 69, is best known for his role as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter series. He wed long-time love Rima, 68, who is an economics professor with whom he has been in a relationship since the two were 19 and 18 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The couple have lived together for more than 40 years and have enjoyed a low-key but loving relationship for decades.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ext-gen136\">Rickman told <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/profiles\/alan-rickman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HELLO<\/a>! magazine once, &#8220;I think every relationship should be allowed to have its own rules. She&#8217;s tolerant. She&#8217;s incredibly tolerant. Unbelievably tolerant. Possibly a candidate for sainthood.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rickman shared the happy news during an interview with German newspaper Bild. He was asked the secret is to his very successful and long-term relationship despite not being married and he replied, &#8220;We are married. Just recently. It was great, because no one was there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the wedding in New York we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and ate lunch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the wedding ceremony was very low-key and that his new wife didn&#8217;t want an expensive diamond ring, but was content with a $265 ring that &#8220;she never wears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a lovely story. Congrats to them both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14688,"parent":0,"template":"","uk_article_category":[6802],"uk_article_tag":[2373,3440,4358],"class_list":["post-14687","uk-article","type-uk-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","uk_article_category-celebrity-weddings-engagements","uk_article_tag-alan-rickman","uk_article_tag-harry-potter","uk_article_tag-secret-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/14687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-article\/14687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_category?post=14687"},{"taxonomy":"uk_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_article_tag?post=14687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}