JOHN James and Camilla Carr, the couple who were never far from front pages when they were captured and held hostage in the breakaway Russian state of Chechnya, have married in secret in a village near Bath.
Following their release in September after 447 days in captivity they said their love for each other had kept them going – and the efforts of their two families who kept up the campaign to free them.
After mental torture and physical assaults Jon, from Lydney, and Camilla, from Ross on Wye, were finally freed. Some sources attributed their release to a Russian millionaire who paid the ransom demanded by the captors.
They later told the press that they planned to marry in the spring in a civil ceremony followed by a church blessing.
The culmination of that promise took place at West Lytton not far from Camilla's mother's home.