‘We were painfully shy around each other in the beginning,’ she says, laughing, ‘but once we had overcome that, we realised that we were really meant to be together – he’s very romantic.’Ī high-profile wedding followed in 2019 at York Minster, and a reception at one of England’s most majestic stately homes, Castle Howard Sienna Miller, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, and James Blunt and Sofia Wellesley were among the 300 guests. A few months later, the pair had a couple of dates in London, and Caspar took her around some galleries. ‘I was exhausted that night,’ Goulding confesses, ‘and I almost didn’t go.’ Thankfully she did. There she met Caspar Jopling, a 6ft 5in Old Etonian and Harvard graduate – also an accomplished oarsman who was picked to row for Oxford in the cancelled 2020 Boat Race. She was living alone and dating, but not seriously, and was invited to a dinner by a friend. More momentous still was what began in 2018, when she was in New York for a short spell at the end of a tour. I had never sung at a wedding before, and of course you feel nervous in any intimate setting like that, much more so than being on stage.’ It was, she adds, ‘very special’ – as it was to sing for the Obamas at the White House just seven months later. It was a big secret and testament to my band and everyone around me that we managed to keep it that way. ‘They were fans of my music and asked me to perform. ‘It was just a whirlwind at the time,’ she says. So substantial was Goulding’s popularity and so wide-reaching her appeal that she was invited to sing at the royal wedding reception for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. But it’s a work in progress: ‘We’ve done a lot to the house,’ says Goulding, ‘and we’re still working on it.’ We settle down in what will eventually become Caspar’s study and meeting room for now, other than a large sofa opposite the fireplace and a couple of black-and-white Gilbert & George artworks, it’s unfurnished, with packing boxes and pictures propped up around the room. ‘It just had something really enchanting about it.’ Enchanting it is: the kitchen leads into a high-ceilinged sitting area with a wooden dining table, comfy sofas and bookshelves lining the back wall. ‘It was the first house we saw,’ says Goulding. Her husband, the handsome art dealer Caspar Jopling, 29, is standing in his workout gear in the large open-plan kitchen, busy on the phone, while their baby son, Arthur, is sleeping peacefully in the corner. Check it out below.īrightest Blue is set to be released this month on July 17, but you can pre-order it here.Her new home is in an idyllic Gloucestershire village and, when we meet, 34-year-old Goulding is already on the go, arranging an online barre class with a teacher in LA for later that afternoon. The 33-year-old music star dropped her latest single 'Slow Grenade' feat.
I hope the songs will be helpful in some way. Some of the lyrics are poignant to what's going on in the world. "And then when you have a succession of sessions that don't go well, you suddenly think you've lost all of your powers and you can't write and you're rubbish. For some reason I was having a hard time. and for some reason they weren't going well. Speaking on Instagram Live recently, Goulding - whose last album, Delirium, was released in 2015 - also said: "I did a whole month of sessions in L.A.
"The tracks also symbolise growing up and becoming a woman," she added. Goulding had previously revealed that the first half of the record reflects her vulnerability and acknowledges a complex world where relationships still dictate our happiness and heartbreak and can still be the most painful thing in the world, no matter how enlightened you are. She said that she thought she'd lost the talent to pen hit records after spending several weeks in Los Angeles making her new album, Brightest Blue, and hardly creating anything worthy to make the upcoming record's final cut. Meanwhile, the ' Slow Grenade' singer recently admitted that she feared she'd lost her songwriting ability while making her new album. I can't even wear tight trousers, it has to be like I'm about to embark on something physical." "I can't wear any kind of jewellery, any make-up, anything with color. When I'm in the studio I have to wear all black, kind of like a blank canvas so I don't get distracted by anything I'm wearing. Speaking on the 'Talk Art' podcast alongside her art dealer husband, Caspar Jopling, Goulding said: "I'm a bit of a weirdo, I have to wear black every day. The British singer-songwriter explained that she only dresses in all-black because it's like a "blank canvas" and she also can't wear jewellery or bright-colored makeup. Ellie Goulding has revealed that she can only wear black when she's in the studio because colored clothes distract her.
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