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Bar spending a post-Covid year listening to her lockdown album, \u201cFolklore\u201d,<\/a> I\u2019m not what you would class as a \u201cSwiftie\u201d. Of course I\u2019m familiar with her greatest hits. Who could have missed the sick beats of \u201cShake It Off\u201d or be blank faced at \u201cBlank Space\u201d? But I\u2019m not one of those fanatical concert sing-a-longers.<\/p>\n Yet despite the lunacy of her unwavering support for Sleepy Joe Biden, she seems a likeable Lefty; even her nemesis Donald Trump was forced to admit<\/a> that she\u2019s a \u201cterrific person\u201d upon hearing the news of her engagement to American football star Travis Kelce on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The 35-year-old singer-songwriter shared a photo of Kelce down on one knee in a garden filled with white and pink roses beneath a decorative arch. It\u2019s since been liked by tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n Some may sniff at the column inches and air time<\/a> afforded these high profile lovebirds. (Fox News cut away from live coverage of President Trump\u2019s ongoing cabinet meeting to break the news of the engagement). But these are faithless times: if we cannot worship at the altar of celebrity marriage, where can we? (I\u2019m writing this on my own 20th wedding anniversary, so cut me some schmaltzy slack).<\/p>\n From Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to Posh and Becks \u2013 we\u2019ve long been fascinated by power couples. And Taylor and Travis (Taylis? Travor?) are simply the longest in a long line of showbiz pairings that beg the simple question: can they go the distance?<\/p>\n For all her lyrical genius and his sporting prowess, can these phenomenally successful millennials achieve something truly extraordinary in remaining together?<\/a><\/p>\n Are this \u201cEnglish teacher and gym teacher\u201d, as Swift put it on Instagram, really going to defy the odds of more than one in three marriages failing and end up in Botoxed old age together? Even when she\u2019s no longer able to wear red lipstick without looking like a prostitute and he\u2019s having to resort to being a personal trainer to one of the Kardashian kids?<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard enough making marriage work behind closed doors \u2013 imagine doing it in front of the world\u2019s media and hundreds of millions of social media followers? At least they can afford separate sinks and someone to load and unload the dishwasher.<\/p>\n There are doubtless many naysayers who are giving it five years at most, mindful that Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Hiddleston and John Meyer all tried and failed to get Swift to change her tune, as her songs have sound-tracked her own romantic woes. But this one feels different and we should all embrace it.<\/p>\n We live in a society without a common religion; one that appears to have turned its back on its traditions. Despite the reluctance of many young people to tie the knot, marriage remains one of the great institutions. A man and a woman willing to enter into holy matrimony in 2025 is something to be rejoiced. (Especially as fertility dropped to a record low in Britain last year.)<\/p>\n It\u2019s also a triumph for self-confessed cat ladies everywhere, who can purr at the news that there is always someone out there for you (and your furry friends).<\/p>\n