IN THE sporting world, Christian Horner is known for being a F1 boss.
However, the motorsports star is also married to a Spice Girls, who many know as Ginger Spice.
Who is Geri Halliwell’s husband Christian Horner?
Born in Leamington Spa on November 16, 1973, Christian Horner is the Team Principle of the Red Bull Racing F1 team – a position he’s held since 2005.
He was previously a race car driver himself with spells in Formula Renault, British F3 and Formula Two.
In 2013, Christian received an OBE for services to motorsport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, after guiding the Red Bull team to three drivers’ and constructors’ championships in a row.
At the time, Horner said: “I just feel very honoured and privileged to receive it.
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“To be in the company of men and women who have achieved such great things for the country is something very, very special.”
Thanks to his incredible career, Christian is a very wealthy man.
He has a net worth is believed to be around £41million.
Christian has accumulated his fortune over the years through his motor sport career.
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When did Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner get married?
Christian and Geri Halliwell started dating in March 2014.
In an interview in August 2023, the Spice Girls star spoke about how when she met the F1 boss, he brought out her “sillier side”.
“The brilliant thing was I was just, like: this is me,” she told The Sunday Times. “I’m not going to hold myself in in a Hervé Léger dress. I was quite grumpy to Christian, actually, and my sillier self came out. I was just real.”
Geri also said that despite her needing to adjust to Christian, in her life after years of being single, it became a “really loving relationship”.
“We’re best friends,” she continued. “And I went to an all-girls school – I didn’t know I could be best friends with a man.”
Then, after a whirlwind romance, the happy couple announced their engagement on November 11, 2014.
Not wanting to hang around, they then tied the not on May 15, 2015, at St Mary’s Church in Woburn.
The F1 boss bought his new wife Geri a £350,000 Aston Martin as a wedding gift.
Do Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner have any children together?
Christian and Geri have one child together – a boy named Montague, born in January 2017.
Their son was born came on the same day as her Spice Girl’s bandmate Emma Bunton, ironically nicknamed Baby Spice, celebrates her birthday.
Geri announced her big news on Twitter and wrote: “Christian and I are delighted to announce our baby boy was born this morning weighing 7lbs 8oz.”
She followed up her post with a little baby Emoji and a thumbs-up sign.
Meanwhile, Christian is stepdad to Geri’s daughter Bluebell Madonna, who was born on May 14, 2006 – her father is Sacha Gervasi.
He also has a daughter, Olivia from a previous relationship with ex-partner Beverley Allen.
Where do Geri Halliwell and Christian Horner live?
The couple share two stunning country homes in Oxfordshire and Hertfordshire.
The property in Oxfordshire is, perhaps, the most lavish and most shared online – boasting its very own duck pond, which they use for boating.
The farm also houses three miniature donkeys, horses and goats in the estate’s stables.
Back in 2019, Christian told Luxury London that the sprawling country abode was the “perfect home to relax in.”
“Restoring the farm has been my hobby – the way I put racing out of my mind,” he added.
“The main house is finished but now the barns are being converted. We’re currently putting the finishing touches to an indoor swimming pool.”
