Inside Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster's 25-year love affair as pair insist 'no rift'

After over 25 years collectively, Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster’s love is tried and true blue. However no couple is resistant to the storms that buffet all relationships, and proper now Rod and Penny seem like navigating some tough circumstances.

In accordance with the Each day Mail, the couple have reached a “stalemate” over their cut up dwelling circumstances. Stewart is loving life in Los Angeles, jetting throughout to Las Vegas for his Caesars Palace residency (which he simply prolonged into 2025) and internet hosting banquets for his finest mates at his custom-built Beverley Hills mansion every weekend.

In the meantime, Lancaster needs to correctly embrace UK dwelling and relocate full-time to the couple’s Grade II-listed countryside mansion in Essex, whereas working in her function as a particular constable for the Metropolis of London police.

The Mail describes Stewart’s Los Angeles property as a “gilded cage” for Lancaster. It has been up on the market since December 2023, with Stewart initially set on relocating to London with Lancaster, however the singer has since turned down gives on the property, presently listed at $80m.

Nonetheless, Stewart has since insisted that there’s “no rift” between the 2 of them and has clarified what is basically happening with their housing state of affairs.

So, bother in paradise? Or relatively — in between paradises? Or is all of it a lot ado about nothing? Right here, we glance again on Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster’s love story, in addition to all current developments.

In January 1999, a then-27-year-old Penny Lancaster met Rod Stewart, then 53, whereas at a celebration with a buddy on the Dorchester Lodge. Her pal had dared Lancaster to ask for Stewart’s autograph. Lancaster revealed that she was a images scholar at Barking Faculty in Essex, and by way of this dialog she managed to attain a job as Stewart’s tour photographer.

“Once we first met, I obtained her telephone quantity — I had simply damaged up,” Rod mentioned on an episode of Unfastened Girls, the place Penny works as a number, in 2015. “I gave it to the bass participant… and he stored it for six months!” he added, explaining that his bandmate didn’t reckon he was able to date once more. At this level, Stewart was already a father of six youngsters, which he shared with 4 girls.

Months later, the Maggie Could singer managed to trace down Lancaster’s quantity and referred to as to ask if he may invite her out to dinner (and at last see the images she had taken on tour).

Lancaster arrived at dinner in leather-based trousers and Stewart was “struck by her recent face and girlish manner.” Bother is, she was in a relationship with another person who she’d been with for ten years — they usually have been engaged. “She was all the time fully open with me about that. Lately, she mentioned, issues hadn’t been going too nicely, however she was torn about letting this individual go,” Stewart writes in his autobiography.

Then, whereas visiting Stewart’s home someday and taking a look at work in his bed room, he requested Lancaster to lie on her again on the mattress. He leant over and kissed her, an “the other way up” kiss that he says Lancaster calls “essentially the most romantic and seductive assembly of lips” she’s ever recognized.

The pair began courting and Lancaster left her different companion regardless that she feared courting Stewart – who already had six children – may imply she by no means obtained to have youngsters of her personal. However that didn’t final too lengthy, as a result of…

Rod Stewart writes in his autobiography that the reminiscence of 9/11 modified his view on increasing his household. “After which got here September 11, 2004, the third anniversary of the assaults on the World Commerce Heart,” he says. “We have been sitting by a lake on a kind of vivid, clear, English autumn afternoons, speaking concerning the households destroyed on that day and the kids left behind. After some time, I mentioned: ‘Let’s make a child.’ And I knew I meant it.”

Inside a yr they’d welcome their first little one, Alastair Stewart.

Stewart proposed to a newly pregnant Lancaster in March 2005, however he needed to do one factor first. “In March 2005, when Penny was nearing her thirty third birthday, I took her to Paris for the day along with her mum and pop,” Stewart writes in his autobiography. “As we have been crossing the Tarmac to the airplane, I hung again barely with Penny’s dad, and above the whine of the engine, leaned into his ear and mentioned: ‘Do I’ve your permission to ask your daughter to marry me?’ Graham’s a troublesome man, however his legs nearly went from beneath him. I needed to maintain him up for a second. ‘Sure!’ he mentioned. ‘Sure, you do!’”

Stewart proposed to Lancaster later that day, within the Jules Verne restaurant on the second platform of the Eiffel Tower. “Penny had a minute of disbelief,” Stewart remembered of the second. “Her fingers went to her face and her eyes welled. Finally, I mentioned: ‘Please say one thing Penny, as a result of my knee is killing me.’” Rod additionally writes that this night time was the night time they conceived Alastair.

As for Penny’s facet: “I used to be surprised, threw my arms round him and burst into tears,” Lancaster instructed the Customary on the time. “I opened the field and he had purchased me essentially the most superb Princess lower diamond engagement ring — traditional and putting.”

Just a little over two years later, Lancaster and Stewart mentioned ‘I do’ in a chapel strewn with white roses within the city of Santa Margherita, on the Italian Riviera. Penny wore a strapless costume by Spanish designer Manuel Mota with an embellished bodice and a fragile up-do, whereas Rod went full pointed collar and ivory waistcoat in his black and white swimsuit.

The couple would later go on to resume their vows in 2017, in a ceremony with 100 family and friends members at their Essex residence. The couple exchanged vows beneath a beech tree within the backyard, earlier than having fun with a three-course meal in a marquee.

Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster welcomed their second son, Aiden, in 2011, after a quick battle with conception. “Aiden was a short while within the making,” Stewart writes in his memoir. “We tried for 2 years earlier than specialists found that Penny had excessive ranges of mercury in her physique and really useful that we attempt in vitro fertilisation.

“We had three rounds of IVF in all, which is bodily very punishing for the girl and heartbreaking when it doesn’t work. Nonetheless, we stored on going. I used to be on tour in Moscow in the summertime of 2010 when Penny phoned to say she was lastly pregnant, and we each wept for pleasure.”

Lancaster and Stewart are nonetheless going robust as we speak, however they’ve been rocked by current rumours of relationship turbulence because the pair battle to make a decision over the place they need to stay. Lancaster is a particular constable for the Metropolis of London Police and Unfastened Girls panellist, which ties her to London. Furthermore, she is a countryside lady at coronary heart, and needs Stewart to decide to dwelling of their Grade II-listed countryside mansion in Essex full time.

In the meantime, Stewart is completely blissful dwelling in his Los Angeles mansion whereas he extends his Las Vegas residency for an additional yr, along with his last present due for June 2025. “He will get to spend high quality time along with his grandchildren and hosts a banquet dinner nearly each Sunday night time at residence for a crowd of his finest buddies,” a supply instructed The Each day Mail of Stewart’s life in LA.

“Penny has no plans to return to LA, which she’s not a fan of, whereas Rod has no plans to maneuver again proper now,” the supply continued. “They’re at a stalemate and Penny is indignant that Rod’s gone again on his phrase. It’s about saving their marriage proper now.”

Nonetheless, Rod Stewart put his foot down yesterday, firmly dispelling any and all rumours of a “rift” between he and Penny. “There’s completely no rift between Penny and I, and no disagreement on the place we must always reside, the truth is it’s the alternative,” he mentioned on Instagram.

“We moved completely again to our beloved Britain a yr in the past however are lucky to even have properties in numerous nations, which we love to go to.

“Initially we did assume it made sense to promote our home in LA, however having spent an exquisite time there this summer season with household and buddies throughout my Vegas residency we realised that it is sensible to maintain our home there.”

“Penny and I couldn’t be extra in love with one another after 27 wonderful years. Please belief me on this… there’s no disharmony in our marriage.” So for all Rod and Penny followers on the market, worry not, they’re robust sufficient to climate just a little lengthy distance turbulence.