It was back in high school when Ed Sheeran met Cherry Seaborn.
He dreamed of stages and stadiums filled with music, while she wanted to build a solid career in the academic and professional world. They understood each other, admired each other, but their destinies already seemed to be tracing different paths.
Life, in fact, separated them. Cherry left for the United States to pursue a master’s degree, while Ed was beginning to make his way in music. Their messages grew fewer, the silences longer. There were no fights or dramatic goodbyes—just two paths slowly drifting apart. Yet under the ashes, a spark remained, waiting for someone to bring it back to life.
Years later, during a U.S. tour opening for Taylor Swift, Ed learned that Cherry was in the same city as he was. He hesitated. Because time changes people, and the fear of rejection doesn’t spare even those who have already found success. But he gathered his courage: he wrote to her and invited her to a party. She said yes.
Their reunion was simple—no spotlights, no promises. Just two people recognizing each other again in the middle of the world’s noise. And from that moment, what once belonged to the past became the most solid certainty of the present.
In 2019, they married in secret, with an intimate ceremony, far from the spotlight. Because true love doesn’t need witnesses—it only needs truth.
Today Cherry works in London, committed to the fight against climate change. Ed continues to sing, and he has confessed that many of his most famous songs—Perfect, Castle on the Hill, Photograph—carry Cherry’s name hidden within their verses.
Together they have two children. Lyra Antarctica, a name that feels like poetry, and Jupiter, born during one of the hardest moments of their lives: Cherry’s battle with cancer. Faced with that trial, Ed stopped everything—concerts, tours, fame—to stay by her side. Because when love is real, it becomes a refuge.
Theirs is not a perfect fairytale. It is a human story.
A story of distance and returns, of silences and new beginnings, of fears and courage.
A love that never gave up.
And when it came back, it came back to stay.
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