Shane MacGowan and his wife Victoria Mary Clarke shared snaps from their wedding on Instagram on Tuesday to mark their fourth anniversary.
Designer Victoria shared a photo of them with their wedding cake and wrote, “It’s our fourth wedding anniversary today!” We both forgot!!!’
Victoria, 56, had worn a long red dress by Bella Freud for the nuptials in Copenhagen, while Shane, 64, in a wheelchair, looked elegant in a suit.
‘It’s our fourth wedding anniversary – we both forgot’ Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and wife Victoria Mary Clarke shared wedding snaps as they marked their special day
Something to say: Victoria posted this funny comment alongside one of the photos she shared
Shane also shared a gallery of images from their special day – which Johnny Depp attended – along with a sweet message.
The Pogues frontman wrote: “Oh the saying of the rosary and transubstantiation, with whiskey in the ditch and lots of medicine.”
“A brand new costume, a pocketful of loot, whiskey in the ditch and my very own dog, whose eyes dance to the music. It’s my black-haired gypsy queen, Victoria Mary Clarke.
The couple have been together for 36 years and were engaged for 11 years before getting married.
Shane has been in a wheelchair from time to time since a bad fall that damaged his back a few years ago.
Happy days: Shane also shared these photos on his own Instagram page as he celebrated his love
‘She’s my dark-haired gypsy queen’: Shane shared a gallery of images alongside words about his beloved
He has a well-documented history of alcohol and drug use and had his teeth fixed in 2015 after losing the last one in 2009.
Depp, Shane’s friend of more than 20 years, played guitar for the couple at the low-key ceremony held at Copenhagen’s City Hall.
Speaking to the Irish Independent, journalist and wife Victoria said ahead of the couple’s big day: ‘Shane and I are both introverts and we decided the only solution was to run away together to a place where we know no one and no one knows us, and keep it a secret.
“But I discovered something about marriages that I hadn’t realized. People really, really want to show they love the people they love.
Pucker up: Johnny jokingly puckered up for a kiss, as Shane and Victoria stared into each other’s eyes in another image he shared
Friends Forever: Johnny appeared on Shane’s 1994 album The Snake. He directed and appeared in the video for That Woman’s Got Me Drinking. Depp also performed for the singer’s 60th birthday in Dublin earlier this year (pictured in 1994)
“So although we would have liked our wedding to be a non-event, and because we found it impossible to keep it completely secret, a few of our friends and family chose to make it a small but beautiful one. thing. ‘
Meanwhile, Shane’s relationship with his loyal girlfriend is set to be turned into a movie, with Johnny vying to play the singer.
Victoria previously took to Twitter and wrote: ‘Assuming there’s a movie going on about us who could star #shanemacgowan?’
‘Obviously Meryl Streep but who else? @poguesofficial.’
There’s the ring: The couple have been together for 36 years and were engaged for 11 years before getting married
She also told The Irish Sun: “It’s early days but they want to make a movie based on our relationship. It’s a love story, it’s not a Pogues movie although that in will obviously be part of it.” We are both very excited.
“The only thing is they want someone to play Shane around 24 or 25, which is when we met in London when I was 16. So I don’t know if Johnny could do it, although he’s a brilliant actor.”
Victoria added: ‘Shane is going to do the soundtrack so he’ll be back in the studio, he’s been there a bit recently. It’s going well and he loves being back.
In an interview with The Irish Mirror before her wedding, Victoria spoke of being “consumed” by Shane when they met and also said she was attracted to his “monstrous arrogance”.
Smile! Pogues singer Shane underwent six operations in six months to recover his life-changing teeth in 2015
A look back: Shane was pictured toothless in 2006 before having them fixed
She said: “I was impressed with him. I became consumed by the thought of him. He says he felt the same, that we were meant to be together. But ours was not to be an easy, uncomplicated life and ours was not to be an uncomplicated love affair.
‘We clung to each other and hung on for a ride that took us through a world of glamor and fame, creativity and ecstasy, drink, drugs and crazy and wild sex and madness, self-destruction and despair, violence, death, betrayal, separation from rage and sadness and so on towards revelation, renewal, compassion and hope for the future.
She previously told the site that drinking wasn’t her love’s only problem, and she once found him with a needle in his leg, but she said ‘you can’t help who you fall in love with’ .
Victoria said: ‘When he opened the door for me after missing his flight to the United States to open for Bob Dylan, and blood was pouring out of his mouth from eating a Beach Boys record, he seemed like the 100 acid tablets were the problem and not the gin and tonic.
Ups and downs: He has a well-documented history of alcohol and drug use and had his teeth fixed in 2015 after losing the last one in 2009