We do not know the exact date of Aldridge's arrival in London on the completion of his seventh tour of Russia, but it must have been close to a year after the death of his wife Margaret at the end of March 1864. Aldridge was now ready to move on to a new phase of his life by marrying his paramour, Amanda, with whom he had already had two children, Irene Luranah Pauline and Frederick Olof.

The wedding took place at St. John the Evangelist Parish Church in Penge, a southern suburb of London not far from their house on Hamlet Road in that community (fig. 13). The witnesses were J. J. and Mary Sheahan, his old friends from Hull. On the marriage registration certificate, Aldridge was listed as a widower, histrionic actor, and son of Daniel Aldridge, a clerk (fig. 14). His bride was described as Amonda [sic] Pauline Von Brandt, a spinster and daughter of Uloff Von Brandt, a Baron of Sweden. There is no mention of Aldridge's illegitimate teenage son, Ira Daniel, as being present at the ceremony.

However, Ira Daniel wrote respectful letters of congratulation to both his father and new stepmother on the day they were married: