Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2008/January 2009 | Page 38

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PHOTO ABOVE:
Damion and his new wife Kerry-Anne pictured holding the Eagle Owl

She married her knight
in shining armour
The 17th church of St Boniface
hasn’t been around long enough
to have seen anything like
it before. A congregation of
medieval knights and their ladies
gathered there to witness the
marriage of Lord Damion Philips
to his bride Kerry-Anne Holroyd.
Damion performs stunt jousts,
and follows the Tutonic knight
order. “It’s part of my life – so I
wasn’t going to have a standard
wedding,” he says. Indeed not.
Invitations, on a scroll, had
been hand-delivered to all the
Island-based guests by court
jester and Robin Hood, and their
costumes were provided by the
groom. He also designed the
bride’s dress, though leaving
Kerry-Anne to add her own
touches. Their children, KC-Leigh

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and Logan, were miniature
medievalists.
Due to a bit of wear and tear
on his own suit of armour –
jousting tends to cause a few
dents – Damion commissioned a
suit from metal-workers in India,
through a charity which supports
children who have nothing. “I
emailed them the design and
it was all brilliant except the
knee-joints were on the wrong
way round,” he laughs.
Birds of prey added to the
atmosphere at The Friend’s
Hotel, Sandown, where guests
caroused afterwards. “It was
crazy,” says the new Lady
Philips.

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