Marcus Mumford says Bible camp sparked decades-long love story with wife Carey Mulligan

Before Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan became one of Hollywood’s most private couples, they were just two kids who met at Bible camp.

The Mumford & Sons frontman recalled on the “SmartLess” podcast how a chance childhood meeting eventually blossomed into romance years later after the pair reconnected as adults.

The future couple first crossed paths at a church Bible camp, when Mumford was 10 and Mulligan was 12, and became pen pals.

The couple is notoriously private about their 14-year marriage.

“Marcus is the only thing that’s mine that I can keep totally away, so I try to,” Mulligan told Vogue in 2015.

Throughout the years, Mumford and Mulligan have focused on making their marriage “the priority” in their lives.

“We said, ‘The odds are stacked against us. Let’s make that our great work and everything else can come from that, right?’” Mumford told GQ in 2022. “The reason I think people don’t stay married is because they don’t realize how much work it takes.”

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Mulligan is a British actress known for her roles in “An Education,” “Drive,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Promising Young Woman” and “Maestro,” the latter earning her a third Oscar nomination.

Mumford, raised in England, is best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Mumford & Sons, the Grammy-winning folk-rock band that helped define the early 2010s folk revival.