Overview
- The baby boy was born on Monday, 9 February at the Kensington Wing of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.
- The couple named him Marmaduke, with the nickname Duke, in tribute to Sam’s late father, Mark.
- Sam and Alice shared exclusive first photos and comments with HELLO! magazine.
- The pair married at Chelsea Registry Office just before Christmas, a choice influenced by his health and a wish to share a surname before the birth.
- Sam, 28, is living with irreversible end-stage liver disease after sepsis and organ failure and is on a transplant waiting list, with doctors warning his life expectancy without surgery is four to five years.