14.3.2007

BULGARIA'S PRINCESS KALINA'S 1ST BABY IS BORN

Top news: 14 March 2007, Wednesday

Bulgaria's Princess Kalina gave birth to her first child, a baby boy, minutes before 9 a.m. on Wednesday in Sofia's Lozenets Hospital.

The royal mother delivered the baby with a Caeserean just days before it was expected. She is feeling well, the delivery was easy, doctors from the hospital.

The father, famous Spanish explorer Kitin Munoz, still has not announced the baby's name.

Bulgaria's exiled King Family is impatient to see Princess Kalina's baby, the royalties' press secretary announced said.

Paparazzi and reporters from Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands are already leaving for Sofia to mark the occasion.

This is the first baby in Simeon's family that was born in Bulgaria in the past 70 years. The previeous time it was Simeon.

Kalina's father, Simeon II Saxe-Coburg , said for the media he has already prepared huge surprises for the mother and the public, but he prefers to keep them secret until the glorious day.

The Princess is also planning several surprises. Most probably Princess Kalina will send greeting cards to all Bulgarian women who become mothers on the day of her delivery.

On the day of Kalina and Kitin's wedding, Simeon II Saxe-Coburg sent 333 greeting cards to all couples who took their vows on the same day.