TALK OF THE TOWN: Speculation mounts that Boris and Carrie may opt for a Catholic ceremony

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TALK OF THE TOWN: Speculation mounts that Boris and Carrie may opt for a Catholic ceremony when they eventually tie the knot

By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday

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Speculation is mounting that Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds may opt for a Catholic ceremony when they eventually tie the knot. 

The Catholic Herald and religious magazine The Tablet report that the couple will honour Carrie’s faith. 

The door is open for a religious service as neither Boris’s first marriage to his university girlfriend Allegra Mostyn-Owen in 1987, nor his second, to barrister Marina Wheeler in 1993, took place in a Catholic church. 

Speculation is mounting that Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds, pictured together at the Commonwealth Day Service, may opt for a Catholic ceremony when they eventually tie the knot

The Catholic Herald and religious magazine The Tablet report that the couple, pictured on holiday in Scotland, will honour Carrie's faith

The Catholic Herald and religious magazine The Tablet report that the couple, pictured on holiday in Scotland, will honour Carrie’s faith

And the couple’s five-month-old son Wilfred has just been baptised into the faith.

PR guru Matthew Freud may be selling his £30 million party pad in trendy Primrose Hill but I wonder if the new owner will be making a bid for some of the curious fixtures and fittings. 

I only ask because during a GQ Man of the Year after-after-party at the mansion a few years ago, 

I seem to recall spotting an Enigma machine in the kitchen and part of a ballistic missile in the garden!