Miranda Hart delighted fans when she disclosed that she had got married in secret at 52.
But the Call The Midwife star gave no details about the wedding or her husband, later named as Richard Fairs, 60, a surveyor.
Now, she has revealed that the guests burst into song during the ceremony with the Sound of Music classic Climb Every Mountain.
Seaking to Radio 3 show Private Passions, she said: ‘We sang it at our very small wedding. ‘Initially, it was, like, ‘Are we really going to do this? It’s such a naff idea.’
‘And the minute everyone started singing, people got so emotional and were really going for it with the beauty of the song.’
She added: ‘Now it just makes me cry, and makes me think of the happiest day of my life as well.’
Miranda Hart has revealed that the guests at her wedding burst into song during the ceremony with the Sound of Music classic Climb Every Mountain
Miranda admitted that before meeting her husband Richard Fairs (pictured), she had ‘given up’ on the idea of ever tying the knot
Miranda admitted that before meeting Richard, she had ‘given up’ on the idea of ever tying the knot.
She said: ‘It makes me think of the recent joy of getting married, which I had sort of given up on the possibility of, and also the young me dreaming. I’ve always been a dreamer. It’s very emotional.’
MailOnline revealed in October that Miranda and Richard had exchanged vows last July at a 1,000-year-old church in the picturesque Hampshire village of Hambledon, attended only by a handful of family and close friends, all of whom were sworn to secrecy.
‘Miranda Hart did get married in St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church,’ the vicar of the 11th century church, Reverend Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Quinn said. ‘But I am not going to discuss anything about it because Miranda has released everything she wants to be known about her marriage and her wedding in her book. And I am not going to go against her wishes.’
Renowned as one of the most beautiful villages in the South Downs National Park, Hambledon has become the base of Miranda’s close-knit family.
Her parents, retired Royal Navy Commander David Hart Dyke, and mother Diana, bought a beautiful mansion there seven years ago, and later her sister Alice, to whom she is extremely close, moved in next door.
Miranda stunned fans when she announced that she had got married over the summer – after she began dating a mystery man who removed mould from her house in 2020.
He was later revealed as divorcee Richard – after he was pictured picking her up from the Cheltenham Literature Festival in October – 24 hours after she divulged his first name on The Graham Norton Show.
Seaking to Radio 3 show Private Passions, she said: ‘We sang it at our very small wedding. ‘Initially, it was, like, ‘Are we really going to do this? It’s such a naff idea’
She added: ‘And the minute everyone started singing, people got so emotional and were really going for it with the beauty of the song’
Miranda admitted she immediately ‘fell in love’ with Richard ‘there and then,’ just moments after they first met in real life.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast in December, she said: ‘The way we met was quite extraordinary. At the beginning of the book [her autobiography] I had this real longing not to be alone anymore and I admitted that to myself.
‘It was quite a pain because when we long for what we want, it’s at a time where we don’t have it so admitting that to yourself is a painful time. I was in my forties and single.
‘And then we met because part of my illness was that I was allergic to mould in my house. You couldn’t write it. I lost my house, I had to leave my house.
She explained that Richard was the project manager coming to sort out the building works and remove the mould.
Miranda said: ‘I was out of the house and a friend was dealing with it all because I couldn’t be there and we met on the final day of the works being done. I think I could say we fell in love there and then.’
She remained tight-lipped about her husband’s identity before it was revealed, referring to him only as ‘The Boy’ or ‘The Mould Man’ in her new book, I Haven’t Been Completely Honest With You.
But she revealed that they got engaged in January during a trip to Kew Gardens in west London after revealing they had ‘fallen hopelessly in love with each other’.
Miranda hinted slightly at his appearance, describing her new husband as a ‘salt-and-pepper greying hair look on a fine-featured man’.
