Monaco’s Prince Albert II and his South African wife Princess Charlene have announced they are expecting their first child.<\/p>\n
In a short statement, the couple – who married in July 2011 – expressed their “immense joy” at the news.<\/p>\n
The statement said the birth was expected before the end of the year, but gave no further details.<\/p>\n
The new baby will replace Princess Caroline – Prince Albert’s older sister – as heir to the throne.<\/p>\n
Prince Albert already has two children from previous relationships – 22-year-old daughter Jazmin and 10-year-old son Alexandre.<\/p>\n
Olympic swimmer<\/strong><\/p>\n The tiny principality of Monaco, which covers about 2sq km (less than one square mile), is the world’s smallest independent state after the Vatican City.<\/p>\n Prince Albert is the son of the late Prince Rainier III and actress Grace Kelly.<\/p>\n Princess Grace died after a car crash in 1982, and Prince Rainier died in 2005.<\/p>\n Prince Albert II has been Monaco’s ruler since the death of his father.<\/p>\n He met Charlene Wittstock when he was presiding over a swimming race in 2000. She then went on represent South Africa in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.<\/p>\n They officially made their debut as a couple at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.<\/p>\n Since their marriage, her official title is Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monaco’s Prince Albert II and his South African wife Princess Charlene have announced they are expecting their first child. In a short statement, the couple – who married in July 2011 – expressed their “immense joy” at the news. The statement said the birth was expected before the end of the year, but gave no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1147,1148,1149,6],"class_list":["post-21816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bright-oduro","tag-cid","tag-director-general","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}