David Furnish and Sir Elton entered into a civil partnership on 21 December 2005, the first day that civil partnerships could be performed in England, in the town of Windsor, Berkshire. Their first child, son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born in December 2010 in California via surrogacy. In January 2013, the couple's second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born through the same surrogate. After same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in March 2014, Sir Elton and Furnish retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and marked the occasion with a ceremony in Windsor, Berkshire, on 21 December
Levon Zourabian Levon Zourabian Levon Zourabian () (born March 9, 1964) is an Armenian politician and coordinator of the Armenian National Congress. Levon Zourabyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia in a family of prominent intellectuals. He is the son of professor Aram Zourabian and screenwriter Agnesa Sevunts, and the grandson of writer Garegin Sevunts and poet Shoghik Safyan. In 1985 he graduated from the Theoretical Physics department of the Yerevan State University. In 1989-1991 he worked at Yerevan Physics Institute as a researcher. He conducted research and published articles on Quantum field theory, Supersymmetry and Supergravitation, and Superstring field theory. He became