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. 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. Scroll down for video The Palace of Monaco have 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
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Princess Charlene, 36, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, on December 10
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Born at Princess Grace Hospital - named after their grandmother
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Jacques will be heir, in line with male priority of Monaco's succession law
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Babies are the first Grimaldi twins born since the 13th century
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Festive images show Albert and Charlene wearing red and white in front of a snow-covered Christmas tree
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