{"id":31455,"date":"2025-02-14T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-14-1984-elton-john-marries-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:02:59","slug":"on-this-day-feb-14-1984-elton-john-marries-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-14-1984-elton-john-marries-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Feb. 14, 1984: Elton John marries for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-14\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, Feb. 14, 1984&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rocker <strong>Elton John<\/strong> married German-born sound engineer <strong>Renate Blauel<\/strong> in an extravagant wedding in Australia. The marriage didn\u2019t last long and they split in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Elton has said he realized he was &#8220;living a lie\u201d and later said he believed that \u201cbeing married would cure me of everything wrong in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elton&#8217;s love life took a turn for the better when he started a relationship with <strong>David Furnish<\/strong> in 1993. In 2005 they entered into a civil partnership in the U.K., and after same-sex marriage became legal there, they married in December of 2014. They have two sons together: <strong>Zachary Jackson Levon<\/strong>, who was born in 2010, and <strong>Elijah Joseph Daniel<\/strong>, who was born in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Blauel sued Elton for writing about their relationship in his 2019 autobiography, <em>Me<\/em>, but the suit was quickly settled out of court.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Feb. 14, 1984&#8230; Rocker Elton John married German-born sound engineer Renate Blauel in an extravagant wedding in Australia. The marriage didn\u2019t last long and they split in 1988. Elton has said he realized he was &#8220;living a lie\u201d and later said he believed that \u201cbeing married would<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-feb-14-1984-elton-john-marries-for-the-first-time\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}