Buckingham Palace has announced that a new royal baby is due this summer.
Princess Eugenie, the late Queen's granddaughter, and her husband Jack Brooksbank will be welcoming their second child in the coming months. The Palace sharing a sweet family photograph to make the announcement.
Buckingham Palace said the royal family was “delighted” and that the couple's son August was “very much” looking forward to becoming a big brother. The happy news has brought joy to the Windsors in the wake of the late Queen’s death and amid difficult times following the publication of the Duke of Sussex’s controversial tell-all memoir.
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In the photograph, taken by Mr Brooksbank, Eugenie, dressed in a woolly hat, beams as August, in a burgundy winter hat, matching trousers and wellies, embraces her and kisses her bump, as they stand next to a fence in a leaf-strewn field. Eugenie wrote: “We’re so excited to share that there will be a new addition to our family this summer.”
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “Princess Eugenie and Mr Jack Brooksbank are pleased to announce they are expecting their second child this summer. The family are delighted and August is very much looking forward to being a big brother.”
The baby will be born 13th in line to the throne and will be a plain Miss or Master. They will be the first of the Queen’s great-grandchildren to be born since her death, and will arrive in the King’s coronation year.
August Philip Hawke Brooksbank was born at the exclusive Portland Hospital in central London on February 9 2021. He made an appearance at the Platinum Jubilee pageant celebrations last year wearing a union flag jumper as Eugenie bounced him up and down on her knee as they sat in the royal box.
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