7 JULY 2003
More than 200 guests gathered at a picturesque Berkshire mansion on Saturday as French football hero Thierry Henry tied the knot with his girlfriend of two years, model Nicole Merry, who famously got the athlete's motor running in a car commercial.

The London-born beauty co-stars with Thierry in a Renault Clio advert, receiving a "va-va-voom" from the Arsenal striker after she dons his team shirt and not much else.

And this past weekend, two years after they first met, Thierry, 25, and Nicole, 23, made their vows at Highclere Castle, a Victorian estate owned by the Earl of Carnavon.

The Earl, whose great-grandfather famously discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922, hosted guests such as Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana when he wed in the sprawling 3,000-acre grounds of the castle in 1992.