Kyle Walker’s wife Annie Kilner has decided not to fly to the European Championships as part of the official WAGs group because she does not want to play ‘happy families’ with the England footballer, MailOnline can reveal.
Annie, 30, instead plans to rent a private jet and fly back and forth to Germany for every England match with the four children she shares with Walker.
The plane will cost Annie around £35,000 each return journey and she also plans to take a friend along to help with the children: baby Rezon, two months, and sons Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, and Reign, five.
A source told the Mail: ‘Things have gotten really bad between Annie and Kyle, and she is only going to the Euros for the sake of the children. If there were no children involved, she wouldn’t go at all.
“She doesn’t want to be part of the WAGs group because she doesn’t feel like she has a good relationship with Kyle and doesn’t want to pretend that she does. She has told him how she feels and is not willing to play a happy family with him in Germany.’
The source added: ‘It doesn’t seem right to Annie that she has to stay at the WAGs hotel because she doesn’t feel like an official WAG. The arrangements are made and she prefers to travel to Germany independently for each of the competitions.’
The Football Association usually makes all travel arrangements for WAGs during major tournaments and also provides them with accommodation in an official hotel. Family time is also planned so players can spend time with their partners and children.
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Annie will be in the stadium with the WAGS during the matches, but will immediately go home on her own after the match.
Her decision to travel to Germany was also influenced after Walker’s ex-lover Lauryn Goodman raised the prospect of attending the tournament with their two children.
Instagram influencer Lauryn is mother to Walker’s son Kairo, four, and daughter, known to family and friends as KK and aged 10 months.
Annie only discovered last December, when she was pregnant with her and Walker’s fourth child, that he had also fathered a second child with Lauryn, leading to the breakdown of their marriage.
The source said: ‘Annie doesn’t want Lauryn to have one on her and is furious that she is planning to go to Germany. She feels like things are really not right and only goes there to cause more trouble.
‘Her marriage to Kyle may not be in good shape, but she is determined to hold on and make sure Lauryn doesn’t get all the publicity during the Euros. If she (Lauryn) is going to be there, so is Annie.”
Annie and Walker’s relationship is said to be at an all-time low, with the couple barely speaking. In an attempt to settle their differences, the Manchester City and England footballer temporarily returned to the family home in Cheshire.
But he is now back in a £20,000-a-month mansion he rented nearby when their marriage broke down earlier this year.
The source said: ‘It’s as bad as it’s ever been and I fear for the future of their marriage. Kyle is no longer at the family home and spends most of the time outside doing his own thing.
‘Even when he won the Premier League, Annie and the kids attended the last match but they didn’t say anything at all. She didn’t even congratulate him or even smile, even when he took the kids onto the field to celebrate.”
The couple also recently took a holiday to Wales with their four children to celebrate Walker’s 34th birthday, but that has done little to repair their marriage.
According to reports, Walker promised the son he shares with Lauryn tickets to the English Euro Games, which he later denied.
Lauryn had promised to be in Germany when he plays, telling friends she was “determined that my children would see their father play.”
She also claimed to friends that Walker told her, “I want you there, and I want Kairo to see me play.”
A friend said: ‘She won’t abandon Kairo. She told friends that Kyle wanted her to take the kids to the Euros when they were still close, before Annie found out they had a daughter.
“Kairo is excited. Lauryn is a good mother. She won’t let her son down.”
If Lauryn travels to Germany, it is unlikely she will be in the stadium with the WAG group, with English football officials saying they will prevent her from joining them ‘in any way’ over fears her presence could deter the highly rated defender. his game.