Beyonce has shared the first picture of herself with her twins to celebrate them turning one month old. The US singer also confirmed they are called Sir Carter and Rumi - which had been rumoured after she and husband Jay-Z filed a trademark for the names. The picture showed the 35-year-old mother-of-three and the twins draped in a purple floral sheet, while she wore a blue veil. It clocked up more than two million likes on Instagram in an hour. Beyonce wrote: "Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today", with a string of emojis of prayer hands and a woman, man, little girl and two babies. As well as the twins, Beyonce and rapper Jay-Z are also parents to five-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy. The style of the image, in which Beyonce stands in a garden barefoot in front of a floral archway, echoes the photoshoot she used to announce her pregnancy on the network. That post, in February, became the most-liked in the history of Instagram.
What's in a name? Jay-Z's real name is of course Shawn Carter. Beyonce wrote that their babies' names are "Sir Carter and Rumi". So is Sir Carter actually Sir Carter Carter? Or does Rumi just have one name? Beyonce's mum Tina cleared things up a little, posting a message saying: "hello Sir Carter and Rumi Carter" and also confirmed their genders: "Boy and girl what a blessing." Beyonce and Jay-Z aren't the first couple to choose some sort of grandiose honorific as a forename - Kim and Kanye have little Saint, Michael Jackson's eldest son is Prince, and Jackson's brother Jermaine named a son, er, Jermajesty. Rumi, meanwhile, is a popular Japanese girl's name but some people have suggested Rumi may be named after the 13th Century Persian poet.
Beyonce has finally unveiled the two newest additions to the Carter family. The 35-year-old pop star - who also shares daughter Blue Ivy, five, with Jay Z - shared the first official photo of her two new bundles of joy on Instagram on Thursday night. Alongside the picture, which was taken in the garden of her $400,000 a month Malibu rental first revealed by DailyMail.com, she confirmed the names of the boy and girl as she wrote: 'Sir Carter and Rumi 1 month today.'
