Carrie Johnson Biography, Age, Husband, Children, Net Worth

Carrie Johnson is an English media consultant married to Boris Johnson. Her father, Matthew Symonds, co-founded The Independent. Caroline worked as a media official for the Conservative Party and is an environmental activist. She advises the ocean conservation charity Oceana and supports the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation.

In August 2019, her visa application to the United States was rejected due to a previous visit to Somaliland, which the US considers part of Somalia. Later that month, she spoke publicly about the climate crisis.

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Carrie Johnson Biography

Caroline Louise Beavan Johnson was born on 17 March 1988 in Oklahoma, USA and she is 36 years old as of 2024. She is a White British who follows the Christian faith and her zodiac sign is Pisces.

Carrie Johnson Education

Carrie B. Johnson attended Bishop McGuinness High School and Godolphin and Latymer School from 1999 to 2006. She then attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English with a Creative Writing emphasis. She later studied Art History and Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick. ¹

Carrie Johnson Parents

Caroline Louise Beavan Symonds’s father was Matthew Symonds, who co-founded The Independent, and her mother, Josephine McAfee, was a lawyer for the newspaper. Caroline’s paternal grandfather, John Beavan, was a Labour Party MEP and editor of the Daily Herald, while her paternal grandmother, Anne Symonds, was a journalist for BBC World Service. ²

Carrie Johnson’s Husband & Children

Caroline Symonds previously dated journalist Harry Cole. In 2018, she began an affair with Boris Johnson, who was then the Foreign Secretary and still married to his second wife. When Johnson became Prime Minister in July 2019, they moved into the flat above 11 Downing Street. She was the first unmarried partner of a Prime Minister to live there.

On February 29, 2020, Caroline and Boris announced their engagement and that they were expecting a baby. Their son, Wilfred, was born on April 29, 2020, and was baptized in the Catholic Church. They married in a secret ceremony on May 29, 2021.

In July 2021, Caroline announced her second pregnancy and revealed she had suffered a miscarriage earlier in the year. Their daughter, Romy, was born on December 9, 2021. In May 2023, Caroline announced she was expecting their third child, and their son, Frank, was born on July 5, 2023. ³

Carrie Johnson Career

Caroline Symonds initially wanted to be an actor and even auditioned for the 2007 film Atonement, but she did not get the role and instead worked in marketing.

In 2009, she joined the Conservative Party as a press officer. She worked at Conservative Campaign Headquarters and campaigned for Boris Johnson in the 2010 London mayoral selection. She also ran campaigns for MP Zac Goldsmith and worked as a media advisor for Conservative Cabinet ministers Sajid Javid and John Whittingdale. Symonds was involved with the Conservative Friends of Russia and attended several of its meetings.

In 2018, she became the Conservative Party’s head of communications but left later that year to work in public relations for the Oceana project. Reports suggested she was asked to leave due to poor performance and unjustified expenses, though these claims were disputed. Caroline Symonds is also a patron of the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation. ⁴

Carrie Johnson’s Net Worth

Carrie Johnson’s exact net worth is not known but she and her husband are high-profile people of the United Kingdom. During the Partygate scandal, Caroline was fined £100 for breaching COVID-19 regulations, which she paid promptly. She was portrayed by Rebecca Humphries in the 2023 Channel 4 docudrama Partygate.