Who’s Jeremy Hunt’s wife Lucia Guo, why has she been dubbed his ‘secret weapon’ and how many children do they have?

LUCIA Guo is the wife of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt who is battling Boris Johnson to become Britain’s next Prime Minister. 

The couple, who have an 11-year age gap, met through the politician’s education business Hotcourses. Here’s all you need to know.

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Who is Jeremy Hunt’s wife Lucia Guo?

Jeremy Hunt met Lucia Guo at a Hotcourses event in Warwick in 2008.

Guo worked at the University of Warwick helping to recruit Chinese students to study at the uni.

After swapping contact details, the pair began dating and married a year later after Jeremy proposed near his parents’ Surrey home.

They wed in a traditional Chinese ceremony in Xian, China.

Together they went on to form a real estate business together called Mare Pond Properties Limited.

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How many children do they have?

Lucia and Jeremy have three children, Jack, Anna and Eleanor.

Hunt has said that he feared his children may face discrimination if immigration is not controlled.

He reasoned that anger against immigrants will increase unless more is done to curb the number of people coming to the UK.

What was ‘Japanese-Chinese’ gaffe?

Jeremy Hunt owned up to a “terrible” gaffe after calling his Chinese wife “Japanese”– during a trip to China to improve relations.

The Foreign Secretary, on a trip to China in July 2018, was trying to curry favour with his hosts but quickly realised his dreadful error.

In his first big foreign trip in the role, he mentioned his spouse Lucia Guo as he held a meeting with his counterpart, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Cameras picked him up saying: “My wife is Japanese – my wife is Chinese.”

After quickly correcting his error he added: “That’s a terrible mistake to make.”