{"id":125158,"date":"2025-05-23T11:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125158\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:49:08","slug":"royal-couple-announce-they-are-expecting-a-baby-just-12-months-after-welcoming-daughter-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125158\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal couple announce they are expecting a baby &#8211; just 12 months after welcoming daughter | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royal<\/a> couple have announced they are expecting their second child this autumn, with the announcement coming just a year after they welcomed their daughter into the world. Princess Alexandra, 34, and <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/style\/1693347\/princess-alexandra-luxembourg-eugenie-engagement-ring-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her husband, Nicolas Bagory,<\/a> will become parents again towards the end of the year, giving their daughter Victoire a younger sibling.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced this week by Princess Alexandra\u2019s parents the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. They released a statement on Thursday which read: &#8220;Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess have the great pleasure of announcing that Princess Alexandra and Mister Nicolas Bagory are expecting their second child.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The happy news comes a year after the princess gave birth to her first child.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s pregnancy news also comes just a month after the princess and her husband celebrated their second wedding anniversary after <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/style\/1764535\/Princess-Alexandra-of-Luxembourg-dress-royal-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marrying in a civil ceremony in Luxembourg<\/a> on 22 April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>They then had a religious wedding at Saint Trophyme church in Bormes-Les-Mimosas in France just a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>The princess, who is the fourth and only daughter of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess, is eighth in the line of succession to the throne.<\/p>\n<p>She currently lives with her husband and daughter in France, and works as a professional linguist.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the princess also spends time in Luxembourg with her parents.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by numerous publications, the couple\u2019s one-year-old daughter does not hold a royal title.<\/p>\n<p>This is also set to be the case with their second child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A royal couple have announced they are expecting their second child this autumn, with the announcement coming just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,26581,26578,26580,26579,55518,55515,55516,55517,519,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-125158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-grand-duke-of-luxembourg","10":"tag-guillaume","11":"tag-henri","12":"tag-hereditary-grand-duke-of-luxembourg","13":"tag-princess-alexa","14":"tag-princess-alexandra-luxembourg","15":"tag-princess-alexandra-luxembourg-baby","16":"tag-princess-alexandra-luxembourg-pregnancy","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114556997727914183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}