London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s wife, Carrie, says she is expecting the couple’s second child.

Carrie Johnson announced her pregnancy in a post on Instagram in which she also revealed that she suffered a miscarriage earlier this year.

“At the beginning of the year, I had a miscarriage which left me heartbroken,” she wrote. “I feel incredibly blessed to be pregnant again, but I’ve also felt like a bag of nerves.”

Johnson said she hoped to welcome her “rainbow baby” around Christmas. Rainbow baby is a term used to describe a child born after a miscarriage, still birth or the death of an infant.

Friends of the Prime Minister said he is “delighted”, the London Telegraph reported.

Carrie, a 33-year-old environmental campaigner and former Conservative Party communications director, said she wanted to share the news about her miscarriage to help others.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie walk on the boardwalk during G7 on June 12 in St Ives, England. In a post on Instagram, Carrie Johnson has said she feels “incredibly blessed to be pregnant again”, expecting the couple’s second child. Credit:AP

“Fertility issues can be really hard for many people, particularly when on platforms like Instagram it can look like everything is only ever going well,” she said. “I found it a real comfort to hear from people who had also experienced loss so I hope that in some very small way sharing this might help others too.”

The Johnsons married in May of this year in a private Catholic ceremony at Westminster Cathedral in London. Their first child, Wilfred, was born in April 2020.

The Prime Minister has six children, including four children with his second wife, Marina Wheeler, and at least one child outside of his marriages.

The baby will be the fourth born to a sitting British prime minister this century. Tony Blair and David Cameron’s wives also had babies while their husbands were in office.

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