Meet Future Prince of Monaco & His Twin Sister

Prince Albert and Charlene have introduced their newborn twins, Jacques and Gabriella.

The Palace of Monaco released a set of images of Prince Albert II of Monaco and his wife Charlene posing with their twin babies Jacques and Gabriella at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco.

The Christmas-themed photographs show a smitten pair of parents gazing at their newborn children, with Princess Gabriella in pink and Prince Jaques in baby blue.

Gabriella was born first at 5.04pm, and Jacques at 5.06pm, but it is Jacques who will be the future Prince of Monaco, because of the Mediterranean principality’s male inheritance laws.

They are the first children for the 36-year-old former South African Olympic swimmer, who married Prince Albert II, 56, three years ago.

Prince Albert was by his wife’s side as the children were delivered on December 10 at the Princess Grace Hospital, which is named after Albert’s mother, the late Hollywood star, Grace Kelly.

Soon after 7.30pm, 42 cannon shots rung around Monaco, confirming that the babies had been born.

Albert had arranged the 42 shots, in place of the 21 that would boom for a single baby.

The babies are the first twins in the royal household, which dates back to the 13th Century.

Albert has admitted that he did not know the sex of the children before birth: ‘It is one of the beautiful surprises that life offers us,’ he said

Source: DailyMail