Laurence Fox is engaged! Divisive actor confirms surprise proposal to Arabella May Fleetwood Neagle

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Laurence Fox today revealed he is engaged to a mystery 28-year-old prep school teacher who supported his ‘anti-woke’ campaign to be Mayor of London.    

The divisive actor turned activist, 43, announced he will marry Arabella May Fleetwood Neagle in an advert in a national newspaper before sharing the news with his 305,000 Twitter followers. 

Miss Neagle, from north London, was photographed next to her husband-to-be on his ‘Free London’ battle bus last year when he was campaigning to oust Sadiq Khan as Labour’s Mayor of London.

She also marched alongside him in the streets of the capital when he urged Londoners to ‘Reclaim your Freedom’ in the election where the ‘anti-woke’ candidate secured 47,634 votes to finish in sixth place.

Arabella, who is yet to comment, is the daughter of a multi-millionaire businessman Paul Neagle, an investment manager and entrepreneur. She is also likely to be the mystery woman he was pictured kissing on an exotic beach in an Instagram post on New Year’s Day. 

Sharing the announcement in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Fox, a father of two previously married to Billie Piper for nine years who has campaigned against vaccines, masks and lockdown measures throughout the pandemic, tweeted: ‘She said yes.’ 

The short announcement was originally printed in Monday’s edition of the Telegraph with the words: ‘The engagement is announced between Laurence Paul Fox and Arabella May Fleetwood Neagle.’ 

Days earlier Fox posted a photo of himself sharing a kiss with what appeared to be a mystery blonde woman, her face obscured, while relaxing on an undisclosed beach. 

An earlier photo, shared in August, saw a head of messy blonde hair resting against the actor’s chest, although the photo may well have featured one of his sons. 

Captioning the image, he wrote: ‘Luckiest man in the world.’   

While little is known about Arabella, she is believed to have accompanied Fox during a London rally last May on behalf of his ‘anti-woke’ political collective, the Reclaim Party. 

Her Oxford educated father Paul is listed as Bursar and Clerk to the Governors at Woodford Green Preparatory School in London, where the Neagle family are understood to be based. 

Companies House records show he had previously served as company director for three separate businesses, of which two have since dissolved.  

Sister Lucinda, a secondary school teacher, recently shared a family photo of herself with Arabella, brother Olivier, mum Kathryn and their father, taken during a family dinner.  

Fox has previously used his Twitter platform to rail against wokeness, entitlement, COVID vaccination and the Black Lives Matter Movement – pertinently the concept of taking the knee – prompting inevitable outrage and heated debate among followers. 

His most recent controversy saw his Twitter account temporarily suspended over a post about Manchester City star Benjamin Mendy which read ‘Get kneeling, f*****s’ after news broke he was being charged with four counts of rape and sexual assault.

Fox – whose illustrious acting dynasty includes his father, James Fox – was dropped by his agent last year after an appearance on Question Time in which he rowed with an ethnicity lecturer over Meghan Markle.

Back in January 2020, he accused Rachel Boyle, an academic at Edge Hill University on Merseyside, of ‘being racist’ after she called him ‘a white privileged male’ for denying the Duchess of Sussex was hounded from Britain for being mixed-race.

Their angry exchange began when Boyle said criticism of Meghan in the media had been motivated by ‘racism’, adding: ‘She’s a black woman and she has been torn to pieces.’

But Fox hit back, saying: ‘it’s not racism’ and continued: We’re the most tolerant, lovely country in Europe… it’s so easy to throw the charge of racism at everybody and it’s really starting to get boring’. 

As the row continued he quoted Martin Luther King’s 1963 ‘I have a dream’ speech about living in a nation where children ‘will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character’ on Twitter. 

He said: ‘This is the position I took last night and I live by in life. If you can improve on it, I’m all ears. Or you can keep screeching ”Racist!” at me and I can carry on having a jolly good giggle at your expense. The tide is turning’. 

In March this year the former actor launched a bid in London’s mayoral election, but won 47,634 votes placing him in sixth with 1.8 per cent of the vote.  

Fox has also waded into the anti-vax row, insisting that he could remove his children from school because of his opposition to the Government’s Covid vaccination programme.

He said he would educate them at home rather than let them be vaccinated without his consent.  

‘Every parent who loves their children should resist this insanity,’ said the actor-turned-political campaigner.

‘I will not be sending my kids back to school. I will educate my kids at home from now on. 

‘The rushed vaccination of children, for no reason whatsoever, shows how deeply morally corrupt this regime has become. I look forward to reading with them at home and staying the hell away from the authorities.’

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