The couple have been married for 18 years.
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Considered an exemplary family man, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been repeatedly recognized as the world’s sexiest politician, was stunned by the news that he and his wife, Sophie Gregoire, had decided to disperse.
The couple were married for 18 years, Trudeau and Gregoire became the parents of three children, a boy and two girls.
As usual, the public was informed about the divorce via a social media post: Trudeau wrote that “after many meaningful and difficult discussions with his wife, they have decided to dissolve the marriage.”
– As always, we remain a very close family, deeply loving and respecting each other, and everything we have created, we will continue to create. Trudeau added, cliché asking that neither he nor his now ex-wife be asked any more questions and that the universal right to privacy be respected.
Officials from the Prime Minister’s Office followed up with an official statement on the matter, assuring that Trudeau and Grégoire would continue to occasionally appear at certain events together, but in the meantime, they would continue to raise their children together. In addition, next week the prime minister will take a vacation and spend it with his children and his ex-wife.
The announcement of the divorce of the Trudeau couple was unexpected: there were no indications of an imminent separation of the spouses. Together they traveled to London for the coronation of Carlos III, together they received the American president on his official visit to Canada.
Trudeau and Gregoire met when they were schoolchildren: Sophie studied in the same class as Michel Trudeau, Justin’s younger brother. But the romance between them broke out when they were already relatively adults: in 2003, the couple met at a charity event. By that time, Sophie had already graduated from university, was working in the field of journalism and in the modeling business, and Justin was taking his first steps in politics, trying to follow the path of his father, who also held the director position. of the Canadian government at the same time. A chance meeting was followed by a first date, and a year later the young people got married.
But now that the marriage has come to an end, the prime minister’s office confirmed that “a legal divorce agreement has already been signed.”
Trudeau’s parents also separated at this time. Officially, the divorce from Trudeau Sr., by the way, was announced when he also held the post of prime minister.
Divorces of heads of state and government are no longer a rarity. The divorce was experienced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. A kind of loneliness baton in Trudeau’s marriage plan was passed to former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who broke up with her husband in May of this year.
