The couple live quietly
in a Surrey village, with
Lisa's two children from her first
marriage,
Thomas, 12, and Talisa, ten.
A year after their tropical Fiji
wedding, Will Carling and his wife Lisa are counting the weeks to the birth of
their first baby. It's the calm after the storm for the rugby legend. After
weathering five years of tumult, tears and romantic notoriety, he can now say:
"I feel incredibly lucky for what has come out of it."
The world
needs little reminder of how Will's first marriage to Julia Carling foundered
after a year, amid talk of his high-profile friendship with Diana, Princess of
Wales. His live in relationship with Ali Cockayne, mother of their baby son
Henry, then ended in destructive turbulence and Will was branded with the "love
rat" label that still lingers in tabloid tales.
And then Will, 35, met
Lisa. The 37-year-old was organising Will's testimonial dinner to mark the end
of his career but, ironically, the public condemnation of the subsequent love
affair took such a toll on the former England captain's popularity that the
testimonial tipped to raise him £500,000 was abandoned.
And
now, a year after their secret wedding in Fiji, the two are happily ensconced
in a family house in Surrey. Lisa is still events organiser and Will is
involved with a company setting up a male lifestyle website. And how do they
sum up their relatioship?. "This is a partnership I never thought I would have.
I'm not searching for anything any more. Suddenly you are..." "...totally happy
with that other person. For the first time I could spend every waking moment
with Will," continues Lisa.
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Will and Lisa got
married quietly, without
fuss, in Fiji 11 months after they first me.
"We felt that being a second time round for
both of us, the important
marriage moments
were between us two," says Will |
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Talking exclusively to us of the baby they are
expecting and the traumas of the last two years
WILL AND LISA CARLING
set the record
straight about their relationship at their Surrey home
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Life has been turbulent for Will, Lisa and
their former
partners since the couple met
and fell in love two years ago. "I feel
very
sad at the pain that was caused," says Will,
"although it was
never in any way intentional"
Now in the final stages of her pregnancy,
Lisa is
positively blooming. Although the
couple already know their baby's sex,
they
are not letting on until the birth.
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