She is American; he is British. She is a professional provocateur; he is a spotlight-shy financier. She is the Black granddaughter of a North Carolina sharecropper; he is the white son of a British lord. They—Candace Owens and George Farmer—are married, have four children, and share a religious, right-wing sensibility that is unifying conservatism across the Atlantic in a way not seen since the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
At the nexus of this transatlantic movement is the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, more commonly known as “the Brompton Oratory.” The 141-year-old, neo-Baroque Catholic church, which counts Farmer among its congregants, and in which Owens converted to Catholicism last year, has become an unexpected link between American nativism and a newly radicalized English right. It’s a meeting point where aristocracy and old-world grandeur mix with culture-war invective and anti-elite rhetoric to create a powerful force roiling both countries’ politics.
