Madonna tells of her 'Magical' wedding

And she spoke of her love for Ritchie, director of hit films Snatch and Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, calling him ‘‘my soul mate’’.

Madonna said she and her husband had chosen Skibo, one of the world’s most exclusive and luxurious hotels, to tie the knot because of his Scottish heritage.

‘‘Well first of all, Scotland is dripping in atmosphere,’’ she told the magazine.

‘‘It is so beautiful. And we wanted to find a place that was really hard to get to, because when people have to work to get somewhere, you know they really want to be there.

‘‘It helped to sort of create an atmosphere that was cut off from the world. ‘‘And my husband and I are both obsessed with history, and we wanted to go to a place that had history.

‘‘His family are Scottish, on his father’s side of the family, so he got to wear his family kilt, which was nice.’’

The couple had their baby son Rocco baptised at Dornoch’s tiny cathedral the night before their wedding ceremony in the lavish hotel which was once the home of Scottish-born steel and railway magnate Andrew Carnegie.

It is famous for both its luxury and discretion - which the singer also praised in the interview.

‘‘The Scots are great. And by the way, nobody grassed on us, nobody; everybody looked after us,’’ she said.

‘‘Everybody was trustworthy. It was like family, instantly.

‘‘I can’t tell you how glad I was that we made that choice.’

Only a handful of guests, including musician Sting whose wife, Trudie Styler, introduced the couple and actress Gwyneth Paltrow, were present at the wedding, just days before Christmas.

‘‘It was truly a magical religious experience the whole week,’’ she said. ‘‘It was very personal and very intimate. We could both really look around us and feel that everybody was rooting for us and supporting us.

‘‘It was like people got to the end of the week and it was like summer camp, no one wanted to leave each other.

‘‘There was so much love, that was the thing, and we couldn’t have found a better place to do it, in this old castle in the middle of the countryside in Scotland.’’

Madonna also told how she had moved to London because her relationship with Ritchie was ‘‘unstable’’ and one or the other had to relocate. ‘‘It was a tumultuous period in my life,’’ she said.

‘‘I was not in a terribly stable relationship at that point and part of the reason was because we both lived in different countries.

‘‘Of course, being the girl, I made the first compromise. ‘‘I picked up my life and my daughter and everything and I rented a house in London.’’

The singer described Ritchie as her ‘‘soul mate’’ but said it had not been love at first sight for the couple.

‘I knew he was a formidable human being and a great talent with a brilliant mind and all that stuff,’’ she said.

‘‘But I just felt like there were too many problems. So I thought: ‘Well great, I’ve just found a great friend.’

‘‘It took me a long time to see beyond that - and I think probably that’s why it’s worked.’’