Rod and Penny christen son
Veteran rocker Rod Stewart and his fiancee Penny Lancaster had their baby son christened in a Scottish church today.
The couple chose to have seven-month-old Alastair Wallace christened in a simple service in the South Leith Parish Church in Edinburgh.
The couple arrived there shortly before the service got under way at 11am.
Stewart, 61, was dressed in a kilt while his fiancee was wearing a long white dress and white lace gloves and carrying a white parasol.
Bells rang out as they entered the oldest church in Leith – the area where Stewart’s father Bob was born.
After the service, which lasted just over an hour, Stewart and Lancaster left the church to a round of applause from parishioners and well-wishers who had gathered outside in the sunshine.
Baby Alastair, who was wrapped in a blanket, was put into their red Jaguar car before they left.
The couple, who live in Epping in Essex, did not answer questions from waiting journalists.
Lancaster, a 35-year-old model and photographer, gave birth to the couple’s first child at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital in London in November.
They chose the name Alastair because of its Scottish origins and the middle name Wallace as a tribute to Lancaster’s grandfather, who died in a road accident in 2003.
At the time she described the birth as “the most empowering and spiritual experience of my life”.
Stewart has six other children, including Kimberly and Sean by his first wife Alana Stewart. He had a daughter Ruby with his former girlfriend Kelly Emberg and two other children, Renee and Liam, from his marriage to Rachel Hunter.
The singer also fathered a child when he was much younger, but was not involved in raising the infant.
