UK Wedding News
07/10/2019
The pair become the first same-sex couple in the UK to make their union official with a civil partnership when they wed in December 2005, but the singer's mother Sheila tried to stop the marriage.
Opening up about the situation in his memoir 'Me', Sir Elton admits he was unaware of her attempts to sabotage the wedding until much later.
He explained: "I didn't find out what had provoked all this until much later. It turned out that David's parents, who are Canadian, had known what the problem was all along, but hadn't wanted to upset us.
"They'd rung Mum as soon as they arrived in the UK. They always got on well with her and Derf. They'd even been on holidays together.
"My mother told them they all had to work together to stop the civil partnership going ahead. She didn't approve of two men 'getting married', as she put it.
"Everyone she'd spoken to was horrified by the very idea. It was going to hurt my career.
"David's mum told her she was nuts, that their kids were doing something amazing and she should support them.
"My mother put the phone down on her."
The 72-year-old said he believes his mother, who died in 2017, was worried about losing her son. He continued: "She repeated the same line to me a couple of years later, in the middle of a blazing row. It didn't make sense. Mum had always been incredibly hard work, but she had never been homophobic...
"As ever, I think the real problem was that she hated anyone being closer to me than she was...
"She couldn't cope with the thought of the umbilical cord finally being cut and she didn't care about anything else, including the fact that I was finally happy."
Elton and David are now happily parents to sons Zachary, aged eight, and six-year-old Elijah.
(JG/MH)
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Sir Elton John's Mother Tried To Stop Wedding
Sir Elton John has revealed his mother wanted to stop him entering into a civil partnership with David Furnish.The pair become the first same-sex couple in the UK to make their union official with a civil partnership when they wed in December 2005, but the singer's mother Sheila tried to stop the marriage.
Opening up about the situation in his memoir 'Me', Sir Elton admits he was unaware of her attempts to sabotage the wedding until much later.
He explained: "I didn't find out what had provoked all this until much later. It turned out that David's parents, who are Canadian, had known what the problem was all along, but hadn't wanted to upset us.
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"They'd rung Mum as soon as they arrived in the UK. They always got on well with her and Derf. They'd even been on holidays together.
"My mother told them they all had to work together to stop the civil partnership going ahead. She didn't approve of two men 'getting married', as she put it.
"Everyone she'd spoken to was horrified by the very idea. It was going to hurt my career.
"David's mum told her she was nuts, that their kids were doing something amazing and she should support them.
"My mother put the phone down on her."
The 72-year-old said he believes his mother, who died in 2017, was worried about losing her son. He continued: "She repeated the same line to me a couple of years later, in the middle of a blazing row. It didn't make sense. Mum had always been incredibly hard work, but she had never been homophobic...
"As ever, I think the real problem was that she hated anyone being closer to me than she was...
"She couldn't cope with the thought of the umbilical cord finally being cut and she didn't care about anything else, including the fact that I was finally happy."
Elton and David are now happily parents to sons Zachary, aged eight, and six-year-old Elijah.
(JG/MH)
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