Lauren Fryer is the Declan Rice girlfriend at the center of the latest attention around England’s FIFA 2026 World Cup run. She and Rice have been together since their teenage years, and she is now in the US with their son Jude as he prepares for Norway.
Rice and Fryer are both 27, and they have one son together. Jude will be four in August next month, and Rice has Jude’s name tattooed on his arm. That family detail has become the clearest public marker of a relationship that has stretched back a decade and stayed mostly private.
Lauren Fryer and Declan Rice
Rice said, “Lauren is the love of my life, and there is no one better for me.” He also joked in 2019 that his girlfriend was worried about his closeness with Mason Mount, saying, “My missus is quite worried. I’m genuinely being serious. She’s quite worried,” and later, “Oh she’s just always: ‘You two... you love him more than you love me’. Honestly. We just get it in the neck all the time. But they need to understand the friendship.”
Dani Dyer added another piece of context when she said, “She is a really good mum, who keeps to herself. She's Dec's childhood sweetheart and you can see how much he adores her.” That lines up with the way Fryer has handled the public side of the relationship: quietly, even as the couple’s name keeps surfacing in the WAGS conversation around England.
Instagram in 2024
Fryer wiped her Instagram in 2024 after being viciously trolled online, a sharp break from the low-profile approach she and Rice prefer. The move left her with less of a public footprint just as interest around the pair kept rising, and it also shows how quickly a private relationship can become a target once it is dragged into wider football chatter.
For readers following Rice’s personal life, the immediate takeaway is simple: Fryer is the partner he has been with since school, they share Jude, and she is already in the US supporting him during the England games. Tonight’s quarter final against Norway puts that family thread back in the frame, with Fryer and Jude part of the travel support around the World Cup run.
