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28 March 2024

American pops question at Eiffel Tower ice-rink

US couple Jon McAchran, centre right, places an engagement ring on his girlfriend Ashley Marie Kimberl. (AP)

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It could have been a scene from fairytale movie ‘Frozen’.

And an AP photographer snapping tourists at the Eiffel Tower's Christmas ice-rink Tuesday happened upon the fairytale moment.

Real estate agent Jon McAchran, 32, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, provoked instant applause when he got down on one frosty knee (and ice-skate) to pop the question on the ice to his girlfriend Ashley Marie Kimberl, 30, presenting her with a sparkling diamond engagement ring.

Kimberl confirmed her answer to the AP: "We're getting married!"

She gushed that ‘it was a surprise, as our first date was on an ice-rink in Virginia’.

This was not the first time that the question has been popped at the Eiffel Tower — Tom Cruise famously asked Katie Holmes to marry him there in 2005.