Miranda Hart has revealed the sweet details of her romantic proposal at London’s Kew Gardens in her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.
The 51-year-old comedian announced the news that she is married live on The One Show on Tuesday night after a flurry of rumours.
Speaking to Alex Jones and Alex Scott about her mystery husband, Miranda, 51, declared ‘someone’s put a ring on it’ as she revealed she met ‘my person’ at the age of 49.
Going into detail in her memoir about how he popped the question, the actress explained that her boyfriend suggested the couple go to the gardens for a walk on an ‘ordinary January day’.
She wrote: ‘We stood still on the bridge overlooking the lake when the silence was pierced as he rather seriously said, “Miranda”. I turned around and as I did he got down on one knee. “Miranda…”
Miranda Hart has revealed the sweet details of her romantic proposal at Kew Gardens in her new book I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You
The 51-year-old comedian announced the news that she is married live on The One Show on Tuesday night after a flurry of rumours
‘I don’t remember anything else because I simply burst out out crying, apparently saying yes before he had finished the sentence (awkward if he’d been tying a shoelace…)’
She emotionally penned: ‘I didn’t think a traditional proposal would affect me so.
‘But there was someone knowing all my ridiculousness and brokenness and still willing to bend down, lookup and commit to loving me and standing by me for the rest of his life.’
Miranda later described her husband as kind, loving, and really fun,’ before dramatically writing: ‘He’s not my boyfriend. He’s my husband. We got married when I was fifty-one.’
During her exciting announcement on The One Show, she gushed: ‘I’m married, I got married at 51 and it’s just so lovely!’
‘I’d written Gary for onscreen Miranda and it wasn’t until I was 49 that I met my person,’ she declared, but insisted she would keep her husband’s identity a secret.
‘It’s a little undercurrent in the book, I’m not going to reveal how we met because that’s a little bit of a twist. He’s my best friend, we had the best fun and I’m just thrilled to be a young bride at 51.’
The star added that she hoped readers of her book will feel hope from her love story, explaining; ‘The fact that I met someone during a pandemic, during chronic illness, when I couldn’t get out of bed or out of the house… I really, really wanted to meet someone, I didn’t want to do life on my own anymore.’
Miranda revealed that the emotional proposal happened in London’s Kew Gardens (pictured above)
Speaking to Alex Jones and Alex Scott , Miranda, 51, declared ‘someone’s put a ring on it’ as she revealed she met ‘my person’ at the age of 49
The front cover of Miranda’s new book ‘I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You’
‘I’d written Gary for onscreen Miranda and it wasn’t until I was 49 that I met my person,’ she joked of her onscreen persona (pictured with Tom Ellis , who plays Gary, in Miranda)
‘The fact that I could meet somebody, it’s not some some of romcom story but it’s hope. Whatever situation you are in, there is always hope, things really do change.’
The star first set tongues wagging about the new man in her life during publicity for the memoir, teasing in her inimitable style that she ‘couldn’t possibly say if there is a love story in it… (There is – shush) Exciting.’
She has also been spotted wearing a wedding band in recent videos and snaps posted on Instagram, where she has a million followers, whilst locals near her £2million West London home have seen her with a mystery man.
Miranda catapulted to fame with her self-titled BBC sitcom in 2009, in which her fictional mother Penny exclaims ‘Such fun!’ whenever she thinks her daughter is about to bag a boyfriend. It follows her quest to find ‘the perfect man’ and her dalliance with dishy chef Gary.
The actress, who played nurse Chummy in Call The Midwife and Miss Bates in Emma, revealed over the summer that she has had been battling a chronic illness for three years.
She wrote online last week: ‘Big news – book out in a week. I share lots of stories of my last decade – mainly what I have learnt living with chronic illness – but there’s lots of fun and some of my own big news.’
And in a publicity blurb for the book on Amazon, out on Thursday, she writes she has had an ‘unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys, but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures’.
‘Treasures – practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) out there, that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery I never would have thought possible.
Going into detail in her memoir about how he popped the question, the actress wrote: ‘We stood still on the bridge overlooking the lake when the silence was pierced as he rather seriously said, “Miranda”(pictured at the ‘Spy’ film premiere in London in 2015)
Miranda set tongues wagging after she was spotted wearing a wedding band in recent videos and snaps posted on Instagram
Miranda pictured in a wedding dress in one of the episodes of her hit comedy
‘Life now, amazingly, with what I will share, is – such fun (always important to quote your own catch phrases)! If you fancy having a read, then I hope my story might help your story. After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious, challenging life together.’
The comic, whose father was commanding officer of HMS Coventry, sunk by Argentina in 1982, has previously joked about her love life, saying:
‘I was very naive sexually. My first boyfriend asked me to do missionary and I buggered off to Africa for six months.’