After nearly a decade together, Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his engagement to partner Georgina Rodríguez.
The Portuguese footballer, who captains both the Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr and the Portugal national team, first met Georgina in 2016 when she was working as a sales assistant at a Gucci store in Madrid in 2016.
This week the couple announced they are set to walk down the aisle.
Posting a photo on Instagram of their hands on a bed, with a massive diamond ring on her finger, the Argentinian-born, Spanish raised model wrote: ‘Yes I do. In this and in all my lives.’
The post was quickly met with hundreds of comments congratulating the pair.
‘So happy for you,’ Lauren Sanchez Bezos wrote.
‘Darling, what fabulous news!!! Sending you both heartfelt congratulations and so much LOVE!!’ Charlotte Tilbury shared.
‘Wonderful news! Many congrats to you both,’ Piers Morgan added.
Many others also shared comments with a series of love heart emojis.
Cristiano and Georgina share five children.
They have two daughters together, Alana, seven, and Bella, three – while Bella’s twin brother Angel tragically died during birth.
At the time they shared: ‘It is with our deepest sadness we have to announce that our baby boy has passed away. It is the greatest pain that any parents can feel.’
Georgina has also helped to raise his other three children – Cristiano Jr, 15, Mateo, eight, and Eva Maria, eight.
The football star – who is worth an estimated $275million (£204million) – also has three more children, a son born in June 2010 and twins born in June 2017, however Georgina treats them all as her own children.
The official engagement post comes after speculation Cristiano had proposed in recent months.
Fans had been speculating he’d got down on one knee after she had shared pictures of a bridal-themed dinner and posed for photographs wearing a ring.
Cristiano had previously spoken about holding off on proposing as the timing wasn’t ‘quite right’.
‘I always tell her: “When we get that click. Like everything with our life, and she knows what I’m talking about. It could be in a year, or it could be in six months or it could be in a month. I’m 1000% sure that it’ll happen,’ he said.
On her Netflix reality show I Am Georgina, she had also detailed how loved ones were asking for updates too.
‘They’re always joking about the wedding. “When is the wedding?”. ‘Since Jennifer Lopez’s song The Ring Or When came out, they started singing it to me. And well, this is not up to me,’ she said.
In the documentary he also described Georgina as ‘the woman of my life’, adding that he is ‘completely in love with her’.
‘I didn’t think at the beginning that it would be this strong, that I would fall in love with her… I didn’t expect it honestly but after I while I felt like she was the woman of my life,’ he said.
Meanwhile she added: ‘I used to dream of a Prince Charming and today I have one with wonderful kids who give me so much love. Yes, I can say dreams do come true.’
Despite not officially confirming their marriage, Cristiano has often referred to Georgina as his ‘wife’.
At the 2024 Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai late last year, he said: ‘It’s a big pleasure to win this trophy. My oldest son is here; my wife is here.’
Earlier this year, when celebrating Georgina’s birthday, Cristiano also posted on social media: ‘For the mother, partner, friend, my wife… happy birthday, love. Your light illuminates us, and your love infects us.’
The footballer once said that meeting his partner was ‘like love at first sight’.
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