Holly Ramsay sets off yesterday to prepare for her wedding in Bat
Adam Peaty also leaves the property yesterday in preparation for his wedding today
The couple at their engagement party. They will marry today at Bath Abbey
Adam Peaty’s mother Caroline pictured at her home in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire in 2021

Today, as wedding bells ring out across Bath Abbey, Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty will marry Holly Ramsay in a ceremony set to be one of the society events of the year.

Peaty with his mother Caroline long before the family rift
Peaty received an OBE in 2022 for which his proud parents Mark and Caroline were present
Gordon Ramsay with daughter Holly at her engagement party last year
Holly, Caroline and Adam pose for a picture for an event that was posted to Adam’s Instagram last year

Holly is expected to glide down the abbey’s gothic aisle on the arm of her famous father, chef Gordon Ramsay, beneath soaring fan-vaulted ceilings. Sisters Tilly, an aspiring chef, and Megan, now a police officer, will stand beside her as joint maids of honour. Proud mum Tana and brother Jack, a marine, will be there too — along with a glittering guest list said to include David and Victoria Beckham and their children, though not son Brooklyn.

But while the pews will be full, one painful absence will loom large.

Holly at her hen do with family friend Victoria Beckham

Adam’s own parents — mother Caroline, father Mark and much of his wider family — will not be among the guests. Only his sister Bethany, 32, is expected to attend, having been chosen as one of 25-year-old Holly’s bridesmaids.

Instead, Caroline and Mark will spend the day at their home in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire — the same house from which Caroline once drove her son to endless training sessions in the early hours of the morning.

“I don’t think they understand how much they have hurt me — it’s as if they’ve cut my heart out,” she says through tears. “This is the first Christmas I’ve not had my family together. My family is broken.”

The rift dates back to a glossy hen-do hosted for Holly six weeks ago — an event that Caroline was not invited to, despite photographs showing the bride-to-be surrounded by her family, friends, Victoria Beckham and Adam’s sister Bethany. Caroline was at home looking after Adam’s five-year-old son George from his previous relationship.

Her sister, former lawyer Louise Williams, later criticised Holly publicly on Instagram, sparking a war of words between mother and son — and leaving wounds that have not healed.

Caroline had hoped to slip quietly into the back of Bath Abbey to watch her son exchange vows. Now she feels that even that is impossible. “Me going would just cause more of a storm,” she says. “I don’t want to ruin his wedding day.”

Now 60 — a birthday Adam did not acknowledge — Caroline says she does not recognise the son she raised.

She claims Adam has told her he sees her as a negative influence, something she struggles to understand. “I’m not a negative person,” she insists. “Otherwise I’d hide under the blankets and never come out.”

In an especially painful twist, she says it was made clear her husband Mark, 65, could attend the church ceremony — but not the reception at Kin House in Wiltshire. Mark refused outright.

“Mark’s fuming. He is so hurt,” she says.

To distract themselves, the couple plan to take Caroline’s mother Mavis — known affectionately online as the “Olympic nan” — for a countryside drive.

Caroline recalls how she once shared an apartment with Holly during the Paris Olympics last year and believed they had a warm relationship. “She told me: ‘You’ve got him back now, he’ll always be part of your family.’ Those words feel hollow now.”

The distance, she says, began long before the wedding — from a selective engagement party at Soho Farmhouse to the presence of Netflix cameras filming Gordon Ramsay’s new show.

Despite everything, Caroline insists she only wants happiness for Adam and Holly. “Adam is genuinely in love with her. When he told me she was his soulmate, that made me so happy — and it still does.”

She has sent cards and a gift to the couple, even though she fears they may never be opened.

“I’ve sent them because I wanted to wish them well. Whether he ever speaks to me again doesn’t matter today. I want him to have a long and happy marriage.”

As Bath Abbey prepares for a fairy-tale ceremony, Caroline will instead wait at home, refreshing social media for glimpses of the day she once dreamed of witnessing.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/