section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  Carney met British economist Diana Fox, who is also active in various environmental and social justice causes, while studying at the University of Oxford. They were married in July 1994 while he was finishing his doctoral thesis. They have four children and lived in Toronto before moving to the Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood of Ottawa and then moving to London in 2013. They moved back to Ottawa when Carney left his role at the Bank of England in 2020.
  
  Carney's younger brother Brian lives in Northern Ireland. His brother-in-law is the 3rd Baron Rotherwick, to whom his wife's sister is married. He is also godfather to the son of fellow politician Chrystia Freeland, who nevertheless ran against him in the 2025 Liberal Party leadership election.
  
  Carney is a Catholic, and was named the most influential Catholic in Britain by The Tablet in 2015. He speaks French but has described his proficiency as "far from perfect". He was a triple citizen of Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, having obtained Irish citizenship in the late 1980s, and British citizenship in 2018 – the latter while governor of the Bank of England, fulfilling a commitment he made when accepting the role. Shortly before becoming Canadian Prime Minister in March 2025, he said that he had started the process of formally renouncing his British and Irish citizenship to signify his commitment to Canada. In April 2025, his campaign stated that he had renounced the other citizenships prior to being sworn in as prime minister.
  
  Carney has distant relatives in Liverpool and is a supporter of the city's football team Everton FC, though his wife supports Arsenal FC. He is also a supporter of the Edmonton Oilers and the Edmonton Elks. He completed the 2015 London Marathon in 3 hours, 31 minutes, and 22 seconds, marking a 17-minute improvement on his time at the 2011 Ottawa Marathon.