Wellington, New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern got engaged to longtime partner Clarke Gayford after Easter proposal, her spokesman said on Friday.
Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford are parents to 10-months-old daughter Neve.
PM Ardern’s spokesman on Friday revealed that the couple got engaged over Easter.
Ardern’s press secretary said she has been wearing a ring since Easter but it has been on a middle finger, not the traditional ring finger.
It is yet unknown who proposed first Ardern or Gayford.
But the Prime Minister has previously said she wouldn’t be letting the 41-year-old off the hook by asking him to marry her.
In a BBC interview in January, Ardern had a burst of hearty laughter when she was asked whether a marriage proposal on her part might be in the couple’s near future.
Host Victoria Derbyshire asked Ardern if she could imagine asking Gayford to marry her and she said, “I would not ask, no. No.”
When Derbyshire pointed out she was a feminist, Ardern replied: “Absolutely I’m a feminist. But I want to put him through the pain and torture of having to agonize about that question himself.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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