Penny Lancaster Shares Emotional Family Moment with Rod Stewart
Penny Lancaster, 54, offered a heartfelt reflection on her family life with her husband, Sir Rod Stewart, 80. The couple celebrated their 18th wedding anniversary earlier this year. They met in 1999, got engaged in 2005 during a romantic trip to Paris, and married in 2007 at La Cervara, a medieval monastery in Portofino, Italy.
Shared Family Life
Rod and Penny share two sons, Alastair and Aiden. After the birth of their first child, Rod named one of his tours the Alastair Wallace Stewart Tour, planning travel around his son’s nap schedule. During that time, Penny kept Alastair’s Moses basket next to their bed while accompanying Rod on tour.
A Frightening Experience as a New Mother
In her memoir Someone Like Me, Penny described the anxiety she felt as a new mother facing her baby’s severe colic.
“Every afternoon at exactly 4 p.m., he’d give a shrill scream that sounded as though he was dying,” she wrote. “In the end, the only thing that would calm him was the sound of Rod’s Great American Songbook collection gently playing. I think hearing it reminded him of the womb’s safety, as I had listened to Rod record while I was pregnant.”
Rod’s Changing Perspective on Parenthood
Though initially hesitant to have more children when they met in the 1990s, Rod embraced fatherhood once again, balancing his career with family life and drawing inspiration from his children along the way.
Author’s Summary: Penny Lancaster reveals how motherhood, music, and love intertwined with Rod Stewart’s family life, turning moments of fear into bonds of comfort and connection.