Sir Rod Stewart once seemed to have given up on love. After two failed marriages, he quipped: “Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house” But two decades ago his cynicism went sailing out of the window when he met Penny Lancaster.
He proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower seven years later. Sir Rod, 75, now admits he can’t believe how Penny, 49, changed that old heart of his and made him a devoted hubby. “I’m stunned that Penny has kept me around for 20 years,” he says. “They have not invented the words for how I feel about her.
She is everything.” Rock singer Rod, who has eight children by five different women, says Penny helped him understand the respect that underpins a long and