The ceremony took place at the La Clé vineyard, around 50 miles east of Cape Town, with photographs showing the couple surrounded by close family under clear skies and winter sunshine.

Strauss and his new wife, who have been together for around two years, were joined by his sons, Samuel and Luca, in what friends have described as a quietly joyful occasion.

The boys were aged 12 and 10 when their mother Ruth died on December 29, 2018, following a battle with a rare form of lung cancer. She was 46 and had been diagnosed just over a year earlier.

The wedding, planned by Mosaic Weddings and photographed by Celeste Prince, was intentionally intimate.

Speaking on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast in November, Strauss confirmed that only family members were invited.

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The timing of the ceremony also explains his absence from Australia during England’s ongoing Ashes campaign.

Strauss and Ms Linnaeus-Peat were first seen together publicly two years ago after dining at an exclusive London restaurant and later appeared in the Royal Box at Wimbledon during this summer’s Championships.

Ms Linnaeus-Peat, a former PR executive, is now a company director of Linnaeus Fine Art Advisory Limited. She grew up in Hong Kong and was educated at St Mary’s Calne, an independent girls’ school in Wiltshire.

News of the marriage has been met with warm reactions from across the sporting world, where Strauss remains a respected figure not only for his achievements on the field but for the work he has undertaken since his wife’s death.

In 2019, he founded the Ruth Strauss Foundation, which supports families facing the loss of a parent from lung cancer and funds research into non-smoking-related forms of the disease.

The charity has since raised millions of pounds annually, with its “Red for Ruth” campaign becoming a fixture of the English cricketing summer.

Strauss has spoken candidly about how grief reshaped his priorities.

In a 2023 interview, he reflected: “Our time is limited, and therefore I need to be more conscious about what I do and don’t do.

“This might mean experiencing things that weren’t appealing to me before, or saying no to things even though I don’t want to let people down. But most of all, it means keeping the people most important to me happy.”

He also urged greater openness around bereavement, describing grief as “still far too much of a taboo”, adding: “It’s absurd, because we’re all going to be touched by death in life… otherwise there will be people devoid of support or knowledge.

“You can be in your own little room grieving, without knowing where to turn.”

Announcing Ruth’s death in 2018, Strauss paid tribute to her devotion to her family.

He said at the time: “Anyone who has met Ruth will know how loving, caring and passionately protective she was of her family.”