Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, and his wife Sophie split
Shocking news came from Canada, "Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, and his wife Sophie separated". The decision was a joint decision between the two sides.
Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire have been married for 18 years. In a post on Instagram, the prime minister said "After many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have decided to part ways."
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A statement from her office added that the couple had signed a "legal separation agreement".
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The public hopes to continue to see them and their three children together as "they remain close family" and both parents will be "always present in their children's lives."
But they asked for privacy ahead of a family holiday scheduled for next week.
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Trudeau and his wife, a former entertainment reporter, are childhood friends and reconnected in 2003 while hosting a charity party together. They soon began dating and married in 2005 in Montreal.
They have three children together: Xavier, 15, Ella Grace, 14, and nine-year-old Hadrien.
The separation is the first for a Canadian prime minister since Trudeau's late father, Pierre Trudeau, who split from Margaret Trudeau in the late 1970s and eventually divorced in 1984 during the final months of his term.