The Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu, daughter of the famed Archbishop Desmond Tutu, last week got married to her female partner Professor Marceline van Furth.
The pair tied the knot at a private ceremony held in Oegstgeest in the Netherlands, with a planned celebration of the marriage to be held in Cape Town in May.
This is Tutu’s second marriage, after her previous one to Joseph Burris, with whom she bore two daughters.
Mpho Tutu is an ordained Episcopal priest, the executive director of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, and also the executive director and founder of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage. Her Dutch partner Furth, is a professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, and holds the Desmond Tutu Chair in Medicine at the university.
“The couple are very grateful to their families and friends for their love and support‚” the family said in a statement announcing the news.