The former Vikings costars got married in August 2024, telling Us Weekly that they both decided to hyphenate their last names as Standen-Martin.
“I’m still Clive Standen for everything else, but you know my parcels will say Standen-Martin,” Standen exclusively told Us. “It’s not a big deal really, I just think there’s no reason that a woman has to take a man’s name these days, and I think it’s a nice [gesture]. And Lucy has a massive family, and her father has more of a heritage than my side of the family.”
He continued, “I have a dad who brought me up since the age of 8, and he has a different name to me. My mum has his name, so I don’t know why I held onto my name so much — maybe because I’m an actor now and people know me like that. But my surname doesn’t hold the same gravitas as Lucy’s does to her family, so it wasn’t such a big deal to me to take Martin on and add it onto my name.”
