Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie

Captain John Vivian Ritchie, Guy's father, served in the Seaforth Highlanders. His parents divorced and remarried up in status. A Scottish wedding had some class to it.

And after 20 years, you are still obsessing about it. What a life!

What did Guy’s parents think when he brought home the world’s biggest whore?

Being in Scotland made her pretentious English accent less grating?

It’s right out of the way of the paps, plus I’ve been to Skibo Castle and it’s a stunning place in idyllic surroundings.

R4 No, it would've been more grating. All English accents are grating, fake or real, to Scottish ears.

I imagine because she was obsessed with becoming a “Lady of the Manor” in the UK and she was pathetically desperate to please Guy and show him how much she just loved the UK.

That whole time she was married to him she was incredibly fake and boring and a doormat. When Guy dumped her and they divorced, she went crazy because she realized she did all that for 8 years for nothing.

R7 is right that the early 2000s was a period when Madonna was obsessed with becoming a Lady of the Manor-type and affected a Mid-Atlantic accent. I was in my twenties then and had been a huge fan since middle school, so I really followed her at the time. But it was during this period that my interest in her music began to wane. I recall a friend lamenting, "I miss slutty Catholic schoolgirl Madonna!" Even today, of her discography, I only listen to classic '80s or '90s Madonna, with MUSIC being the only post-2000 exception.

Anyway, I think like Meghan Markle after her, she realized that the UK was not all it was cracked up to be and the bloom was off the English rose. By the end of the decade, she moved back to NYC where she resided until fairly recently, when she relocated to Portugal (I think). I predict that she will eventually move back to NYC. She seems to have a love affair with that city.

Madonna deferring to Guy from 2000 to about 2005 was so off-putting. It seemed to go against everything she was about. When Confessions came out in 2005, she seemed to bring back some of the old Madonna but it still felt like she was trying to juggle being both Madonna the pop star and Lady of the Manor.

I think deferring to him for so long and it not working out led to some sort of breakdown. She hasn't been the same since.

She's a typical dumb American anglophile.

Not sure she could have a Catholic ceremony. She was divorced. Bit I remember that they baptized their baby in a Catholic Church a few days before the wedding.

Madonna's BFF at the time, Gwyneth Paltrow, also did a similar thing. Around 2002, she gave an interview in the UK where she more or less lambasted British men for not being as forward as their American counterparts. Basically, she was sick of making the first move whenever she visited. I think it was said tongue in cheek, but she was heavily criticized for it. The next thing I heard, she was dating Cold Play's Christ Martin and they married within a year. Their first child was born shortly after that. She relocated to the UK and talked badly about the US whenever she could.

Postscript: After ten years of marriage, she and Martin divorced and she moved back to the US and married an American (Brad Falchuk).

She was beyond him

Have you confessed?

I recently read the most deliciously mean-spirited review of 'The Gentleman', that basically said Guy Ritchie tries to dress street trash up as something upper class, much like when he married Detroit's own Madonna. It was vicious!

I remember her brother’s book about the wedding. They had to pay their own way there. And she gave him a small room. 🤣🤣

He is so overrated as a director. But I loved when he divorced Madonna and thanked her for all the money he got in the settlement. Classy.

R9, Remember the Mrs. Ritchie outfit she wore? She definitely did do another chameleon act with that marriage.

She really stooped low when she married that fat prick. Why? Because she got knocked up again? He wasn’t very good looking.

Dirt on Ritchie's new wife? Any details from UK Loungers? I've never heard of her, before googling him just now due to this thread, Jacqui Ainsley. Not a lot to go off, besides she's about 20 years younger than he and a down market Rose Byrne. (I'm a Byrner.)

Why Not?

Fuck the fuck off, OP.

I’m not a Madonna fan but I have sympathy for her during her time with Ritchie. From what I understand she really wanted to make the relationship work and have a successful marriage.