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Congrats to Julian Assange and Stella Moris.

Unfortunately, we won’t be able to show you any pictures of the two of them together on their wedding day because Assange remains behind bars in Belmarsh Prison.

The 50-year-old has been held at the London prison since he was removed from the city’s Ecuadorian embassy in 2019.

A private ceremony was held away from the cameras before Moris posed for shots outside.

Sky News with some details from the couple’s special day:

Stella Moris, 38, a lawyer, arrived at the southeast London jail in a dress designed by Dame Vivienne Westwood.

She was joined by the couple’s sons Gabriel, four, and Max, two, and Assange’s father and brother, Richard and Gabriel Shipton.

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Thirty of his supporters gathered outside the prison with a marquee and wedding cake. Adorned with white flowers and yellow ribbons, a sign at the entrance read: “The world is with you – free Assange.”

If you get in close on that wedding cake, you’ll see the duo united:

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They met when Moris was hired in 2012 as part of Assange’s legal team fighting his extradition to Sweden from London’s Ecuadorean Embassy. Over the next seven years, they had two children together.

Assange was granted permission to marry Moris after a legal battle last year, but his biggest fight still lies ahead:

He is fighting extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information after WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

But enough about that – let’s turn our attention back to the special day.

This via The New York Times:

[Moris] cut into a tiered wedding cake after the private ceremony. She wore a flowing veil with words inscribed on it that included: “relentless,” “valiant” and “free enduring love.”

“I’m very happy and very sad,” Ms. Moris said. “I love Julian with all my heart, and I wish he were here.”

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 It was not immediately clear who attended the ceremony or if the couple was allowed to hold a reception or spend time alone after the wedding.

A little local twist in the tale is that Moris was born in South Africa, although her accent is long gone and she spent most of her childhood in Sweden.

She’s clearly bought into the ‘for better or for worse’ part of the wedding vowels.

If Assange is convicted of the 17 charges levelled against him in the US, he would face up to 175 years in jail.

[sources:sky&nytimes]