Penny Lancaster reveals country she and husband Sir Rod Stewart could quit UK for after falling in love with 'stunning' location
Penny Lancaster has revealed that one country that she kay consider quitting the UK for in a possible major move for her and husband Sir Rod Stewart.
The model and TV personality, 54, has been married to the rock and roll legend since 2007, when the couple wed during a lavish ceremony in Portofino, Italy. The couple also jetted off to the Caribbean for a yacht holiday as Sir Rod celebrated his 80th birthday last year.
However, while their jet-setting lifestyle has taken them around the world, Penny has revealed the one country that she has fallen in love with and could swap their life in the UK for one day.
Speaking on the LNER Routes podcast, she revealed that her “heart and soul” is in Tanzania, after she visited the country before having children with her husband. She later told sons Aiden, 14, and Alistair, 19, that she is “going to end up there” later in life.
Penny said: Tanzania, that’s one place that really…my heart and soul is there. I said to the boys when we got to take them there the second time round, ‘If you ever want to know where mum is going to end up, this is the place.’
She added: “It’s the culture, and the light, as a photographer it’s stunning. I first went with Rod, before I had children, and I remember him etching a heart and our initials into a tree. Before he said I love you he wrote it in a tree. So it was all very romantic.
“It was like those movies, kind of whisked away in your safari outfits across the Serengeti, and we said when we do have children, we must take them back and we did.
“We got to learn about the local tribes and the schools and my eldest would love to go back. Not just for the animals but just, it really touched him too.”
During their stay in Tanzania, Penny and Rod stayed as the swanky Mwiba Lodge, an accommodation which is located in a sprawling 51,000-acre wildlife reserve.
Speaking previously in The Times, Penny described their stay, saying: “We stayed at the Mwiba Lodge and visited the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, flew over Mount Kilimanjaro, and got up early each morning to watch the animals at sunrise.
“It was wonderful. Rod and I had been on safari before we had kids, so the best bit was seeing it through our sons’ eyes. They were blown away.”