

"With your first child, you do perhaps go into it thinking, 'Yeah, this is a job you can clock in and clock out of,' but at about three weeks in, you suddenly realise it's not like that. "Fatherhood is lovely but there is this slightly shocking moment when you realise it is not something you just wear and take off," he said. Hannah is the sister of journalist and food blogger Esther Walker, who is married to restaurant critic Giles Coren.Īlexander has previously shared his thoughts on parenting his sons with The Guardian, claiming he didn't initially realise how much work it would be. The couple have four children together and it's thought that Hannah has been a stay-at-home mum to their sons Rex, Patrick, Edward, and Henry at their 26-acre farm in Bledington, Gloucestershire. But you don't worry so much about things, which is good."

There is the very obvious thing that suddenly you're in it for the long run. "I don't think getting married has changed our relationship at all though. In order for it to work at its best, you have to realise quite how good marriage is and I think that's what your first year is all about. "Married life is fantastic," he gushed at the time. He popped the question in Pisa, Italy, a year later and said the marriage was one of the best things to have happened to him. Their paths crossed a few weeks later at a polo match, from which point Alexander once told the Manchester Evening News he was 'smitten'. He met Hannah Bronwen Snow, who was then an events organiser for Harvey Nichols, after being introduced by a friend. BBC/Remarkable Television, an Endemol UK company/Matt Frost)
