While River Song openly admits to being in love with The Doctor, The Doctor does not admit to loving her in return… at least, not verbally. However, he is more physically affectionate towards her than any regular companions, and, most notably, he actually marries her.
The Eleventh Doctor was very close to River in particular, and River openly stated that she loved him, particularly during The Wedding of River Song. But, despite clearly being very close to her and even marrying her, the Doctor never stated – on screen, at least – that he loved her.
Truly, madly, deeply. To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor's life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he'd travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.
Kingston plays her in 15 episodes, as River becomes a companion, romantic interest and eventual wife of the Doctor in his eleventh incarnation portrayed by Matt Smith.
That is something you can see in the seasons finale of season 7. Just how the Doctor looks at River and kisses her and the :"I thought it would hurt me and i was right". This is showing us,in the end of elevens time with River,how much he really loved her.
"Hello Sweetie!" River Song Meets The Twelfth Doctor | The Husbands Of River Song | Doctor Who
Is Clara River Song's daughter?
Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
DWM, Moffat confirms there was no wedding in The Wedding of River Song, ergo the Doctor and River aren't married - although she likes to pretend they are. Another fan controversy resolved. Moffat confirmed that the wedding IN THE EPISODE wasn't an actual marriage.
While River Song openly admits to being in love with The Doctor, The Doctor does not admit to loving her in return… at least, not verbally. However, he is more physically affectionate towards her than any regular companions, and, most notably, he actually marries her.
River trusts the Doctor completely. She loves every age, every face, across all of time and space, as he himself loves her: misguided youth, prisoner, Doctor, and Professor. She sees every side of him, the madman in a box, and the lonely crusader in extremis.
But the universe has to be righted, so to appease her, the Doctor agrees to marry her. So to put it another way, their marriage is not due to any sort of trust built or great romance between them. It is to mollify River the way one might a tantrum-throwing child.
She whispers the Doctor's real name to prove that River has met the Doctor before, but the Doctor has not yet met River. They are traveling in time in different directions and time is not a linear progression of cause to effect.
In the Doctor Who Confidential episode End of an Era, executive producer Julie Gardner confirmed that the intention was that the new Doctor did indeed say "I love you" when he whispered in Rose's ear. On screen, this character was only ever referred to as the Doctor.
It is revealed that when the Doctor whispered to Martha in the previous episode, he said: "Use the countdown." Docherty's betrayal was planned — engineered by Martha so that she would be brought on board the Valiant to rejoin the Doctor.
In "Day of the Moon" River kisses the Doctor for the first time from his perspective ("You know what they say, there's a first time for everything."). Subtext from River cues us in that this isn't the first time for her.
The River Song who appeared in The Name of the Doctor was only a copy that existed in the library's computer, so, in the literal sense, she was his ex-(as in deceased)-wife. Of course, when the Doctor met her again in The Husbands of River Song, it was before she died, so she was still his current wife.
Fun fact: The 13th Doctor has met River Song | Fandom. This seems to be paper that River has written on (maybe from her diary,but that's unlikely). So this means that 13 and River have met. That's not the only good and new part this part of the book gives us.
Why doesn t River know the Doctor in the husbands of River song?
He tries the usual moral arguments, but River doesn't recognize his face as one belonging to the Doctor, and she wasn't around when the Time Lords gave him extra regenerations for Secret Santa. As far as she knows, those 12 faces are all he gets, so this guy is just a surgeon who needs to do his job.
It was this deep connection that ultimately led the Doctor to view Rose as something more than just a companion, but he understood that their conflicting lifestyles meant they couldn't be together in the way they both wanted.
Do River and the Doctor have an open relationship?
Due to the nature of the Doctor's and her travels they appear to have a non-monogamous/open marriage. In the newest episode “The Husbands of River Song” she meets the Doctor again, unable to recognise him (due to his new regeneration) she tells him that he reminds her of her second wife.
Throughout Doctor Who, there have been multiple reasons why the Doctor's name was never revealed. The sixth Doctor claimed it was simply because a human could not pronounce it, but the eleventh Doctor revealed his name was a signal that would bring the Time-Lords to this universe and restart the Time War.
River reveals her parentage – A Good Man Goes to War (again) Just as she is born as "Melody Pond" (see No. 1), the older River, now a married woman, reveals who her mum and dad are: Amy and Rory.
It clearly states that the Doctor's real name is d³∑x₂, which should be pronounce "Delta Cubed Sigma X Squared" in english. Obviously that's a pretty long name, and what do you call people by when they have long names? Nicknames. And as we all know, the Doctor's nickname in the academy was "Theta Sigma".
Considering that this is only their second time meeting each other, at least on-screen, it's perhaps a little early to suggest that they always meet in the wrong order. At least, if it was the second time. But if they had met even just once more before, then the Doctor knowing that it's a pattern would make sense.
From what I can gather, the only person allowed to know a Time Lord's real name after they get their self-given name is the person they marry. River Song and the Doctor are technically husband and wife, and so the Doctor told her his name.
Did the Doctor and River Song spend 24 years together?
Excluding post-death and audio book adventures, this is also the final confirmed time River sees the Eleventh incarnation of the Doctor. She does, however, meet Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor in Christmas episode, "The Husbands of River Song," where the couple spend 24 years together.
