The stork will return to land at 10 Downing Street. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new wife, Carrie Symonds, has announced that she is expecting her second child, who will make BoJo a father for the fifth time. The happy event is expected by Christmas, announced the First Lady, entrusting the happy news to a post on Instagram. Without hiding being a “bundle of nerves” and revealing that she had a miscarriage that “broke her heart” at the beginning of the year. Carrie’s post, accompanied by the auspicious photo of a Christmas decoration in the shape of a blue pram, does not hide the anxiety and concern of the future new mother, tried by the experience of a few months ago: “At the beginning of the year – writes the 33 / year old wife of the premier – I had a miscarriage that left me with a broken heart. I feel blessed with the good fortune of being pregnant again but I also feel a bundle of nerves. Problems in pregnancy – adds Carrie Johnson – they can be really heavy for a lot of people, especially when on platforms like Instagram it can seem like everything always has to be okay. For me it was a real comfort that other people confessed to me that they also had losses and that gives me a some hope that in my small way sharing this thing can also help someone else ».
For her this is the second child, after the birth of little Wilfred in April 2020, while for the 56 / year old conservative premier it will be the sixth, having had four by his second wife, Marina Wheeler, married in 1993 and with whom he divorced in 2020, while from his first marriage to Allegra Mostyn-Owen, whom he married in 1987, no heirs arrived. Carrie Symonds, who was recently named the Aspinall Foundation Animal Protection Press Officer, met Johnson while campaigning for re-election as Mayor of London in 2012. But their relationship officially began in 2018 after the announcement. Johnson’s separation from his second wife. In 2019, with BoJo’s election as prime minister, the two became the first unmarried couple to move into the prime minister’s historic residence. Seven months after the announcement that the first child was on the way, at the same time as their official engagement.
Two weeks before the national coronavirus lockdown was announced. Boris and Carrie then got married last May, marking the first marriage of a reigning Premier in nearly 200 years, with a small ceremony in Westminster Cathedral. The birth of Wilfred last year is nothing new for Downing Street, not even in recent years. Tony and Cherie Blair hung the celestial ribbon for the birth of their fourth child Leo in 2000 and ten years later David Cameron and his wife Samantha did the same in pink when their daughter Florence was born.