While high-profile Democrats appeared to skip the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, this weekend’s tech-adjacent billionaire bash is a different story. Kamala Harris is expected to attend the celebration of the union between Apple scion Eve Jobs and Olympian Harry Charles, at the Great Tew Estate in the English countryside.
The youngest daughter of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs will wed Charles Saturday in the St. Michael and All Angels parish church on the estate’s grounds, with a reception to follow at the Estelle Manor, a recently opened luxury hotel known for sustainability efforts such as reuse of cooking oil as biofuel and an avoidance of fresh-cut flowers over dried arrangements from local sources.
The 27-year-old Jobs described herself as a “horse girl” to Vanity Fair in a 2022 interview (and has the trophies to back it up), graduated from Stanford University in 2021, and has worked as a model in the years since. But her career might change as time goes on. “As my life unfolds a bit, I’m going to find my avenue to impact the most people in the best way possible,” she told VF. “I want to take my time and get it right and find something I love, just as I see my mom finding ways in which to reach people.”
She’s referring, of course, to her mother Laurene, who Kamala Harris described as a member of her “extended family” in 2017. According to the New York Times, Powell Jobs is one of the former vice president’s “most essential confidantes,” donating millions to her failed presidential campaign. So, unlike the seeming grab bag of guests at the Bezos and Sánchez nuptials, there’s a certain logic to Harris’s attendance Saturday, which the UK Times reports has been presaged by “steel fences, Secret Service SUVs and strict security protocols.”
But Eve Jobs isn’t the only side of the couple with a family legacy in the public eye. Her imminent spouse, 26-year-old Harry Charles, was a member of the gold medal-winning British show-jumping team at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics; he also competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in both team and individual events. His father, Peter Charles, is also an Olympian, representing both England and Ireland over the years. His mother, Tara Charles, is also a well-known horsewoman.
The couple, who hard-launched their relationship with an effusive Instagram post last August, are spending a rumored $6.72 million (£5M) on this weekend’s event in the Cotswolds, a scenic area of southwest England. Other rumored attendees include a laundry list of famous scions, Page Six reports, including Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s daughter Princess Beatrice, equestrian Jessica Springsteen (the daughter of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa), and Jennifer Gates Nassar, the eldest daughter of billionaire Bill Gates and ex-wife Melinda French Gates.
Elton John, who was long-rumored as a performer at the Bezos/Sánchez shindig, has also been touted as a likely performer at the event. John ended up not performing at the Amazon founder’s event (reasons for his absence vary), and representatives for John have neither confirmed nor denied his plans for the weekend.
