Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, and his wife Sophie are divorcing.

 On Wednesday, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, announced that he and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau were divorcing.

We have decided to separate, Trudeau added, following "many significant and tough conversations" with Sophie.

As always, he added, "We continue to be a close family with a profound love and respect for each other and for everything we have done and will continue to develop."

For the sake of their children's safety, he requested that their privacy be maintained.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the prime minister's office stated that the couple "had signed a legal separation agreement."

According to the statement, "They have strived to ensure that all necessary legal and ethical measures with relation to their choice to separate have been done, and will do so going ahead."

The way they met

According to the official biography of the Canadian Prime Minister, Trudeau returned to Montreal in 2002 after spending several years as a teacher in Vancouver. It was there that he met Grégoire.

"Justin moved back to Montréal in 2002 when he met Sophie Grégoire. They were united in marriage in 2005, and today they are the proud parents of Hadrien, Ella-Grace, and Xavier.
According to the Liberal Party website for Grégoire Trudeau, he graduated from the Université of Montréal with a degree in communications and afterward worked in sales and advertising before becoming a reporter for television and radio.

Last year, Grégoire Trudeau said on Instagram that he and his wife had "navigated through sunny days, severe storms, and everything in between and it ain't over."