Carrie Johnson, the wife of Boris Johnson, has given birth to their fourth child.
Mrs Johnson said the couple is ‘smitten’ with their newborn baby daughter, named Poppy Eliza Josephine Johnson.
The former Prime Minister was pictured cradling Poppy in the hospital, after her birth on May 21.
Poppy is sister to Frank, Romy and Wilfred, who was born during the COVID lockdown in April 2020.
Romy was born in December 2021 and Frank in July 2023.
Announcing the birth on Instagram, Mrs Johnson said ‘I can’t believe how pretty and tiny you are. Feel so incredibly lucky. We are all totally smitten.
She added: ‘Not sure I’ve slept a minute since you were born as can’t stop looking at how completely lovely you are.’
Friends of the couple said they left the sex of the baby a surprise and had been expecting a boy.
Mrs Johnson wrote ‘Wilf, Romy and Frank are utterly delighted, particularly Romy who was desperate for a little sister. Bring on the matching dresses.’
In the main announcement image, the baby is sporting a yellow babygrow and knitted jumper, chosen because the couple did not know whether she would be a boy or a girl.
Mrs Johnson also kept the pregnancy mostly a secret. Carrie Johnson gave birth at UCLH and thanked the ‘amazing’ maternity team in her social media post.
Announcing the baby’s name, Mrs Johnson wrote her nicknames are ‘Pops, Pop Tart’. Her middle name Josephine was chosen after Carrie’s mother.
She also suggested the baby would be the final one for her family, writing: ‘A final gang member.’
She posted a sweet picture of Romy holding her baby sister, as well as a photograph of Wilfred stroking her head.
She shared an adorable picture of Romy cuddling her little sister and another of Wilfred stroking her head.
Mrs Johnson also posted images of a pepperoni pizza and a bottle of Pina Colada cocktail, made by the ‘Lockdown Liquor & Co’.
She wrote: ‘Back from hospital now and time for cocktails and pizza with my tiny baby snoozing on my lap. Life doesn’t get any better.’
Poppy’s birth comes after Mrs Johnson was hospitalised with pneumonia for almost a week in January this year.
Posting at the time Mrs Johnson wrote: ‘Hospital confirmed I had flu and pneumonia. I was there nearly a week and I’m still not recovered.
‘It could take another few weeks until I feel like myself again.
‘I didn’t expect to spend the first week of 2025 in hospital. After having a nasty chest infection for nearly 18 days at home over Christmas, it just got out of hand and I was struggling to breathe properly.’
Mr and Mrs Johnson announced their engagement in February 2020 and welcomed their first child, Wilfred, on April 29 that year.
The following year Mrs Johnson gave birth to Romy on December 9, and their second son Frank was born on July 5, 2023.
Wilfred was named by the Johnsons in honour of Mr Johnson’s grandpa. He has two middle names: Nicholas, after a doctor who treated the former MP at St. Thomas’ hospital in London as he fought COVID, and Lawrie, after her own grandfather.
In honour of Mrs Johnson’s aunt Rosemary, their daughter Romy bears her name. In honour of Mr. Johnson’s late mother, she was given the third name Charlotte. Her middle name, Iris, is Greek for rainbow.
Mrs Johnson described Romy as their ‘rainbow baby’ following her miscarriage a year before she was born.
After giving birth to Frank, Mrs Johnson said: ‘Welcome to the world Frank Alfred Odysseus Johnson born 5th July at 9.15 am. (Can you guess which name my husband chose?!)’
Boris Johnson, the poor man probably lost count of how many children he had years ago. Some people would call him reckless, but he has the banknotes, so he doesn’t care how many he brings into the world.
Although it’s great that they shared photos of their new baby, I definitely wouldn’t post my child’s face on social media since there are some very odd people online.
The number of children they have doesn’t matter to me as long as they provide for them and don’t depend on handouts.
Boris Johnson has nine children – perhaps he doesn’t comprehend the term contraception. At least the Johnson family are helping to keep the English bloodline before we become extinct.
Boris Johnson’s third great-grandfather was H.İ.F. Kurucularından Yazar Ali Kemal Rıza, Bey who was born in Istanbul, Istanbul Province, Turkey. So, far from a British bloodline.
Ali Kemal Bey (1867 – 6 November 1922) was a liberal Turkish journalist, newspaper editor and poet who was briefly Minister of the Interior in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
He was killed during the Turkish War of Independence. He is the paternal grandfather of British politician Stanley Johnson, and great-grandfather of Boris Johnson, Rachel Johnson and Jo Johnson.
I’ve got to mention that it was nice that he included his children with Carrie Johnson, but he should have also mentioned his older children as well which is fault on Boris’s part because then he started to look like such an irresponsible creature.
Of course, I have criticisms of Boris, but he’s also 100 percent more likeable than Starmer.
Stanley Johnson, Boris’s father said in the Daily and Sunday Express: ‘We need to limit UK population growth to protect the environment.’ He obviously never spoke to his son about this.
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