The truth about Ronaldo's twins Revealed!

Whether or not he is truly the greatest footballer to have played the game, Cristiano Ronaldo is no longer a mere sportsman, he is a global brand.

This week, it was revealed that the player who calls himself CR7 (his initials and shirt number) boosts his colossal income by a staggering £310,000 through sponsorship every time he posts a picture or film on Instagram, where he has 106 million followers.

He treated fans to a video showing him grinning from ear to diamond-studded ear as he danced in the aisle of his private Gulfstream jet. Dressed like a rapper, in skin-tight white jeans ripped at the knees, baseball cap, heavy gold chain and sunglasses, he whooped as his moves were mimicked by a male travelling companion.

There has been endless speculation because Ronaldo, 32, remains unmarried, rumours surround his sexual orientation (despite all the glamourous women he has romanced) and he has not identified the twins’ mother.

Today, however, we can reveal the truth about Ronaldo’s unconventional, motherless family.

The twins were conceived in a laboratory and born to a surrogate mother. This was ascertained from the publicly accessible case file in the Superior Court of California, San Diego, where part of Ronaldo’s surname, dos Santos Aveiro, was misspelt.

Ronaldo is identified as the Petitioner in the case ‘Intended Parent CA vs Confidential’ (Ronaldo and, presumably, the birth mother), which was dated May 17 — three weeks before the twins’ birth.

The court would not provide any further information, not even the names of the lawyers involved. However, the listed category of the case on the court register — ‘surrogacy’ — ends speculation about how the twins were conceived.

So where and when were they born? The answer lies on their birth certificates (public documents), filed using only part of Ronaldo’s surname.