Northern Ireland has a newly-crowned WAG — a twenty-something lass from Coleraine.

Mehrnoosh Dehaghani (24) married Hull City’s Anthony Gardner (28) a fortnight ago.

The former University of Ulster fashion student, whose father is Persian, reached the top 10 of FHM’s High Street Honeys in 2005.

A model booking website describes the 5ft 6ins beauty Mehrnoosh as resembling pop singer Nelly Furtado.

Her new 6ft 5ins husband formerly played for Tottenham Hotspur before making a permanent move to Hull City last year.

One high-profile guest failed to appear at the wedding in the 500-year old Hampton Court Palace in Richmond upon Thames — Cheryl Cole.

The Girls Aloud singing star and X Factor judge had been invited to the glittering ceremony along with husband Ashley Cole, the Chelsea football star who is a good friend of defender Anthony.

But, according to Closer magazine, Cheryl was worn out after travelling home from a break in the South of France with her husband and decided to give the day a miss.

Cheryl also declined an invitation to another football wedding on the same day — that of Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole to his long term partner Carly Zucker.

Joe Cole is of course a team-mate of Ashley’s at Stamford Bridge and many of the London club’s players had been invited to attend the lavish function at the Royal Hospital — home of the famous Chelsea Pensioners — in London.

A source told the magazine: “It was really puzzling because Cheryl and Ashley had said they’d go, and they had even gone and booked a suite in the Hempel Hotel in London to stay in after the weddings.

“Things came to a head between them because Ashey is v ery close mates with Joe Cole and he wanted to be there. But he couldn’t talk Cheryl into it.”

Hampton Court Palace, incidntally, has not been lived in by any members of the Royal Family family since the 18th century.

It was originally built for Cardinal Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII, circa 1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the palace was passed to the King, who enlarged it.