Julian Assange and Stella Morris to wed
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to wed: Meet his SA bride [photos]
Ready to wed: Julian Assange and his South African bride Stella Morris are set to tie the knot before the New Year…
Julian Assange and Stella Morris to wed
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@StellaMoris1
Imprisoned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to get married – and his bride-to-be Stella Morris hails from Mzansi!
According to Stella, the couple were granted permission to wed at London’s Belmarsh high-security prison. But not before the couple pursued legal action against the governor of the prison who attempted to block the union.
Stella tweeted on Thursday: “Good news: UK government has backed down 24h before the deadline. Julian and I now have permission to marry in Belmarsh prison.
“I am relieved but still angry that legal action was necessary to put a stop to the illegal interference with our basic right to marry.”
FIVE FACTS ABOUT JULIAN ASSANGE BRIDE
STELLA MORRIS IS NOT HER REAL NAME
Born Sara Gonzalez Devant, Stella Morris was born in South African in 1983 and spent her childhood in Sweden.
According to MailOnline, Stella has a theatre director mother and urban planner father. She now lives in the UK with her two children fathered by Julian Assange: Gabriel and Max
SHE ONCE DEFENDED JULIAN ASSANGE
Stella is a lawyer with a degree in law and politics from London’s School of Oriental and African Studies .
She met Julian Assange through her friend Jennifer Robinson in 2011. The pair were defending the editor and publisher on rape charges, which were later dropped.
Stella and Julian officially began dating in 2015 and engaged two years later, but kept their romance a secret.
The 37-year-old said in a YouTube video: “At the beginning, it was a working relationship. I was in the embassy every day and Julian became a friends.
“Over the years he went from being a person I enjoyed seeing to the man I wanted to see most in the world”.
Stella Morris
SHE ‘SECRETLY’ CONCEIVED THEIR TWO CHILDREN
Julian and Stella conceived their two children whilst he was living inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, which he took up to avoid extradition to Sweden over his sexual assault case. He was also wanted in the US over charges of espionage after leaking of thousands of classified US intelligence documents.
She said: “Forming a family was a deliberate decision to break down those walls around him and imagine a life beyond that prison.
“While for many people it would seem insane to start a family in that context, for us it was the sane thing to do, to keep things real.
“It grounds me, and when Julian sees the children, it gives him a lot of peace and nurture and support. They are very happy children.”
Stella Morris
SHE BELIEVES AUTHORITIES TRIED TO STEAL SON’S DNA
According to court documents, Stella Morris kept her pregnancy a secret from both the public and the Ecuadorian Embassy, where Julian Assange was seeking political asylum.
She hid her baby bump by wearing baggy clothes and later “smuggled” firstborn son Gabriel into the embassy to meet his dad, via friends.
They believe US intelligence agencies tried to steal their son’s DNA from a nappy after becoming suspicious that Julian was his father.
She disclosed: “[A security guard] had been given instructions to follow me outside the embassy and steal our baby’s nappy from inside it so they could analyse the DNA.
“He warned me not to bring the baby into the embassy again.
SHE FILMED HER LABOUR WITH A GOPRO
According to Stella Morris, a close friend filmed the birth of her second son Max via a GoPro, and the footage was sent to Julian, who at the time was banned from receiving visitors.
Stella and her sons reunited with Julian in 2019 when he was moved to the Belmarsh Prison in London after finally being arrested.
The couple plan to wed “before 2022”.
