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Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster Celebrate 18th Anniversary Aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

Retracing their engagement-to-wedding route on a storied train highlights their enduring partnership

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Overview

  • The couple travelled aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express from Paris, where they became engaged in 2005, to Portofino, where they wed in 2007.
  • Stewart, 80, and Lancaster, 54, began dating in 1999 and married on June 16, 2007, at the medieval La Cervara abbey in Portofino.
  • Stewart has eight children with five women, including two sons with Lancaster, and Lancaster is stepmother to his six older children.
  • Their daughter Kimberly surprised her father at the American Music Awards and revealed in March that she is pregnant with her second child.
  • After publicly shutting down rumors of a rift in August 2024, the couple now splits their time between homes in Britain and Los Angeles.