Cristiano Ronaldo has moved to the next level in his nearly decade-long affair with Georgina Rodríguez, as the couple are now formally engaged. The 40-year-old football legend surprised Rodríguez with a beautiful diamond ring, the beginning of a new era in their long-term relationship. Jewellery experts, as quoted by Marca, estimate the stone to be between 10 and 15 carats, and worth over 1 million.
The news broke through Rodríguez’s Instagram, where she shared a close-up image of her hand on top of Ronaldo’s, highlighting an enormous oval-cut diamond ring. Her accompanying caption, in Spanish, read like a loving vow to answer “yes” not just in this lifetime, but in all the lifetimes that lay ahead.
The oval diamond sits atop a simple band, with all eyes focused on the gem’s sparkle. The pair first appeared in the public eye as a couple in January 2017 at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich. In the same year, the pair became Instagram official, and the two started making frequent public appearances.
Their family expanded rapidly, twin births through a surrogate in mid-2017, and their daughter Alana Martina in November of the same year. Another pregnancy with twins was announced by them in 2021, but the happiness was soon followed by heartbreak in April 2022, when their newborn son succumbed to death shortly after birth. Ronaldo later revealed that only the fact that their baby girl survived enabled them to survive such unimaginable sadness.
Georgina Rodríguez, one of the former Gucci sales assistants, has talked about their early life together. She has described how Ronaldo would collect her from work in one of his luxury vehicles, sometimes even a Bugatti, much to the shock of her fellow workers. Ronaldo himself has reminisced about the time with a chuckle, recounting how he would stand outside and the two would go off into solitude.