Boris and Carrie Johnson name daughter Romy and release first picture

She is their second child together

Author: Alex UsherPublished 17th Dec 2021
Last updated 27th May 2022

Boris and Carrie Johnson have announced the name of their new baby daughter, Romy Iris Charlotte Johnson.

On a visit to a vaccination centre earlier in the day, Mr Johnson spoke to a woman with a baby in a pram and revealed his daughter's name was Romy.

And posting on Instagram, Mrs Johnson revealed the other meanings behind the names.

She said Romy was after her aunt Rosemary, while the couple had picked Iris from the Greek for rainbow.

This could be a reference to the fact Mrs Johnson previously spoke about having had a miscarriage and a baby born after a miscarriage, stillborn, or neonatal death is known as a rainbow baby.

While Charlotte was in honour of Mr Johnson's late mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, who died aged 79 in September.

Romy, who is just over one week old, is the couple's second baby together after their son Wilfred was born in April last year, and is at least the Prime Minister's seventh child.

Johnson, 57, has four children with his former wife, the barrister Marina Wheeler, and a daughter named Stephanie, with the art consultant Helen Macintyre, with whom he had an affair with while he was mayor of London in 2009.

In a post on Instagram, accompanied by a photograph of the two children next to a Christmas tree, Mrs Johnson said: "Wilf has been stroking Romy's hair, giving big kisses and playing with his matchbox cars right next to her crib, just in case she feels like joining in too."

She added: "Thank you so much to the amazing maternity staff at UCLH for looking after us so well. We are so, so grateful."

The prime minister has not taken an extended period of leave after Romy’s birth as he battles ongoing political arguments as well as the spread of the Omicron Covid variant.

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