In a grand, wood-panelled room usually reserved for weddings inside the quaint Jesmond Dene House here on Tyneside, Amanda Staveley began a relationship that supporters of Newcastle United will be praying proves a marriage made in heaven.
Just moments earlier news had landed of the completion of the £305million Saudi-led takeover, backed by the country's £700billion Public Investment Fund. And here was Staveley, the 48-year-old British businesswoman, fronting the deal as part of a consortium who now rank as the richest football-club owners in the world.
After completing her first round of broadcast interviews - interrupted briefly by the jubilant sound of car horns outside - Staveley invited Sportsmail to her hotel suite to discuss the takeover that has made world headlines.