Harry Kane once told the Evening Standard that meeting his wife Kate as a teenager was a stroke of luck. "If I was single now and meeting people, you'd never know if they were with you for the right reasons," he said. "Is it the money? You'd never really know." The couple, childhood sweethearts from Chingford Foundation School in east London, married in 2019 and now have four children — Ivy, Vivienne, Louis and Henry — whose faces are obscured online, a deliberate choice for safety and privacy.
Kate, a qualified fitness instructor with a sizeable social media following, embodies a shift from the WAG frenzy of 2006, when Victoria Beckham, Coleen Rooney and Cheryl Tweedy dominated tabloids. The term "WAGS" is now "fully deceased", according to one report, but interest in the partners behind the England squad endures — especially as many have flourishing careers and online followings of their own.
“England WAGs shift from tabloid frenzy to privacy as Harry Kane's wife Kate and others shun the spotlight.”
Tolami Benson, engaged to Bukayo Saka since November 2025, went viral during the 2024 Euros after being spotted in the stands. She works in marketing and PR, has worked with Puma and created an edit for River Island, and has built a following through fashion and travel content. Lauren Fryer, Declan Rice's childhood sweetheart and mother of his son Jude, prefers to stay out of the spotlight. In 2024, Rice publicly defended her after online trolling; she subsequently wiped her social media feeds.
History has a way of repeating itself: Scotland last qualified for the World Cup in 1998, the same year a man moved to Boston and later opened the only Scottish pub in the city.