Allegra Mostyn-Owen

Allegra Mostyn-Owen is a British journalist and teacher. She is notable for being the first wife of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Mostyn-Owen was born in London to art historian and Christie's Education chairman William Mostyn-Owen and Italian writer Gaia Servadio. She was raised by her parents alongside her two brothers, Orlando and Owen. During her time as an undergraduate student at Trinity College, Oxford, she worked as a journalist and met Johnson. Mostyn-Owen and Johnson married in 1987, divorcing in 1993. She remarried in 2010. Education and career From 1983, Mostyn-Owen read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Trinity College, Oxford. Students often spoke of her as one of Oxford's most beautiful women. Subsequent modelling assignments included being photographed by David Bailey for the cover of Tatler magazine and by Terence Donovan for Vogue. She was on the books of the Models1 modelling agency in London. Her career in journalism began when she became the joint student editor of Oxford's Isis magazine in 1985.