Ellie Goulding is engaged! The singer and her fiancé, Caspar Jopling, decided to share their news in a traditional way, via an announcement in The Times newspaper [1].

The news read: "The engagement is announced between Caspar, son of The Hon Nicholas Jopling of Yorkshire and Mrs Jayne Warde-Aldam of Yorkshire, and Elena, daughter of Mr Arthur Goulding of Hertfordshire and Mrs Tracey Sumner of West Midlands." We'll allow a brief moment to let it sink in that Ellie's full name is actually Elena — who knew?

The 31-year-old singer has been dating Caspar, an art dealer and former Eton College student, for 18 months. Caspar has shared photos of the 31-year-old on his Instagram, and his photography skills are nearly as adorable as his captions [2].

Announcing engagements in The Times is a very old tradition, and other celebrities including Kit Harington and Rose Leslie [3] and Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter [4] have chosen to do the same in recent years.

Here's another to add to the rapidly growing list of celebrity engagements this year [5]. Congratulations to the happy couple!

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