Monaco's Prince Albert and Charlene introduce their newborn twins Jacques and Gabriella

 

The Palace of Monaco has released a set of images of Prince Albert II of Monaco and his wife Charlene posing with their twin babies Jacques and Gabriella at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco.

Princess Charlene, 36, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, on December 10,2014

Born at Princess Grace Hospital - named after their grandmother

Jacques will be heir, in line with male priority of Monaco's succession law

Babies are the first Grimaldi twins born since the 13th century

The Christmas-themed photographs show a smitten pair of parents gazing at their newborn children, with Princess Gabriella in pink and Prince Jaques in baby blue.

Gabriella was born first at 5.04pm, and Jacques at 5.06pm, but it is Jacques who will be the future Prince of Monaco, because of the Mediterranean principality's male inheritance laws.