Eva Carneiro gets married in London - but no Chelsea players are present for the big day

Eva Carneiro got married in London on Wednesday - but no Chelsea players were in attendance.

The former Blues doctor tied the knot with partner Jason De Carteret, a polar explorer, at St Patrick’s Church in Soho.

A number of former players attended the service, including ex-Chelsea goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.

However, none of the current Blues players or coaching staff were present.

Gibraltar-born Carneiro, who is suing Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho for constructive dismissal, is currently without a job after leaving her post at Stamford Bridge.

Carneiro's lawyers have failed to agree a settlement with Chelsea so far. The three-month period in which a claim must be notified ended on November 8.

An employment tribunal hearing is set to take place early next year and could be potentially embarrassing for the club, and for that reason such cases are usually settled beforehand.

The doctor was dropped from first-team duties on August 8 after she and physio John Fearn were criticised by manager Jose Mourinho for going on to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard - the player had to leave the field temporarily as a result meaning Chelsea were briefly down to nine men.

Mourinho has since been cleared by the Football Association of using discriminatory language towards Carneiro but the doctor has criticised the governing body over its investigation.

On the Gibraltar streets where she grew up a clear picture emerges of Eva Carniero’s dogged determination.

Down the road from the Carneiros’ apartment block – where most flats are government subsidised for working class families, and kids receive full grants to get them to university – Eva’s old headteacher Alfred Cortes recalled an ambitious pupil.

She went to study medicine at Nottingham University, before working in accident and emergency in the Scottish Highlands, spending two years in Tasmania at the Australasian College of Sports Physicians.

Eva completed her MSc in Sport and Exercise in London.

Confirming she got As and Bs at A Level, he said: “She was quiet and kept a low profile getting on with her work as she was very focused.”

The doctor joined the British Olympic Medical Institute’s Intensive Rehabilitation Unit before earning a place on the UK Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist training programme.

She has also worked with Team GB athletes and the England women’s football team, and her former headteacher said sh also had a livelier side.

“She was very popular with her mates and did gymnastics and dancing,” he said.

Eva’s spoken in rare interviews of a love of sport – particularly dance including samba and ballet, and horse-riding.

She’d spend idyllic holidays in Spain as a child riding ponies.

“We used to spend long, hot, lovely summers in Spain,” she said. Later, living in Sydney, she added surfing to her list of hobbies.

“Those moments in the surf in the early mornings and evenings I count among the happiest of my life.”

Friends also confirm she always put her studies first.

Schoo lfreind Claudette Ocaña Sierra, who was close to Eva when the girls were teens and is still in contact with her now, says: “She was very centred with her studies and responsible.

"She was never a party animal and although she went out with everyone else she’s definitely not the first person to start dancing!” she added, confirming she had only known Eva have one long-term boyfriend in Gibraltar.

“She’s a lovely, funny person and has never changed since we were young.”

But Eva's focus on working in medicine and football hasn’t wavered since she was 16 – despite the barrage of sexist stereotypes and abuse she’s faced.

Just last year she was subjected to sexual slurs on the pitch – but the glass ceiling pressed hard years before.

“I remember literally having finished my last exams at medical school and I went off on my elective to Brazil,” she said.

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“A lady went into labour on our plane. I remember thinking my Portuguese must be very bad because they couldn’t possibly be asking if there was a doctor on the plane over the speakers.

"Surely things like that only happened in movies! Luckily there was a lovely Brazilian doctor there too and the baby was born healthy.

“Unfortunately the national press reported it as doctor and nurse deliver baby on plane. I was not happy with the female stereotype.”

And at a conference in Sweden earlier this year the doctor said: “I think in every programme I’ve ever watched in my life the woman, the female doctor, is hyper-sexualised.

"She gets off with Tom Cruise and it’s all happy endings. Or she’s not present, or she’s a lesbian.

“Women want to be leaders, we just put them off as we go along.”