Carey Mulligan and husband Marcus Mumford have a very sweet meet cute.

The Oscar-nominated Promising Young Woman The actress revealed that she and her Mumford and Sons front man husband met at the same summer camp when she was 12 and he was 10.

The Maestro star recalled writing to each other after camp ended, during her appearance on Good Morning Britain on Thursday.

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“We became pen pals after and that’s how we kept in touch, we didn’t have phones,” she said.

“We used to fax a bit when fax machines were cool. We need to get kids back doing the pen pal thing again.

“It’s a good thing.”

When asked how long it was between being pen pals and later getting married the actress admits they lost touch for a while in between.

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“There was about ten years when we lost touch and then we reconnected,” Mulligan told co-hosts Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley.

The two found each other again on Facebook.

They married in 2012 after dating for five months and are now parents of three children.

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