Posing in her stunning wedding dress, 37-year-old South African lawyer Stella Morris is experiencing the happiest day of her life today.
After receiving a marriage license from the British authorities, "Mr Wikileaks" Julian Assange and his lawyer and mother of his two sons, Stella Morris, are getting married at London's Belmarsh Prison, where he has been held since 2019.
The bride has said she was "lucky" to have met Assange in her attempt to prevent his extradition to the US in 2015, when he had taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
She has claimed they gradually became close to each other during her visits to the embassy. "We became close, became friends and watched movies together. I enjoyed spending time with him. It was very romantic," she had told the US show "60 Minutes."
When she became pregnant with their first child, Gabriel, in 2016, Assange was incarcerated at the embassy and under constant surveillance by Americans. Nevertheless, the couple managed to "capture" both of their sons in rooms in the embassy that had no security cameras!
The founder of the WikiLeaks website had fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid arrest after the publication of documents exposing US handling of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the time Assange was also accused of sexual offences by two Swedish women, charges that were eventually dropped.
Morris, a South African-born lawyer, had joined his defence team since 2011 and visited him frequently at the embassy.
Assange and Morris have been a couple since 2015.
Four years later, the new Ecuadorian government stripped Assange of his asylum, British authorities stormed the embassy and transferred him to the maximum security Belmarsh prison.
Morris has stated in the past that she managed to hide her pregnancies from the authorities and the media by wearing a lot of clothes and complaining that she supposedly got fat.
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