{"id":290602,"date":"2011-03-05T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/05\/its-a-girl-sophie-dahl-and-jamie-cullum-welcome-their-new-baby-daughter-lyra-to-the-world\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T16:31:25","slug":"its-a-girl-sophie-dahl-and-jamie-cullum-welcome-their-new-baby-daughter-lyra-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/its-a-girl-sophie-dahl-and-jamie-cullum-welcome-their-new-baby-daughter-lyra-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a girl! Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum welcome their new baby daughter Lyra to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"111.60818465\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Jody+Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jody Thompson<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 4:31 PM on 5th March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Model Sophie Dahl has given birth to her first child, a daughter named Lyra.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie, 33, granddaughter of children&#8217;s author Roald Dahl, and her husband, jazz star Jamie Cullum, 31, became parents earlier this week but news of the birth has only just been released.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement issued through a spokesman, they said: &#8216;Musician Jamie Cullum and his wife, the author and presenter Sophie Dahl, have become parents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Their daughter Lyra was born on March the second. They are over the moon.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6b1b725767_468x627.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"627\" alt=\"Model parents: Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum had their first baby earlier this week, a little girl called Lyra \" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Model parents: Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum had their first baby earlier this week, a little girl called Lyra <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>They will not be releasing any further details about their daughter, including her weight and where she was born, the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The couple have been keen to keep their private life out of the public eye since beginning a relationship in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Former model Sophie and BBC Radio 2 presenter Jamie celebrated their wedding at a country hotel last year, having kept the event secret from all but their closest friends and family.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/30281158240_468x419.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"419\" alt=\"Out the oven: Model Sophie has forged a new career as a cookery writer and presenter with her BBC2 show The Delicious Miss Dahl \" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out the oven: Model Sophie has forged a new career as a cookery writer and presenter with her BBC2 show The Delicious Miss Dahl <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The blessing at the Lime Wood Hotel in the New Forest National Park in January 2010 followed an official marriage ceremony which took place earlier.<\/p>\n<p>They announced that Dahl, who starred in her own BBC2 cookery show The Delicious Miss Dhal last year, was four months pregnant last September.<\/p>\n<p>The rather beautiful and unusual name Lyra has become more well known since the publication of the Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials, whose central character is called Lyra Belacqua.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the name of a Kate Bush song written for a film version of one of the novels.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a constellation called Lyra, and it is the Latin word for lyre, the stringed instrument.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The couple&#8217;s new baby daughter will be brought up at their \u00a33<br \/>\nmillion house in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe house was once the home of Sophie\u2019s grandfather. But a newborn may be a rude awakening for Jamie \u2013<br \/>\nhe has boasted on his Facebook page that getting up at 1pm is one of<br \/>\nhis \u2018favourite things\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sophie will be back on our screens later this year on a BBC2<br \/>\ndocumentary about the Victorian cookery book writer Mrs Beeton. <\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/6b1b725767_468x627-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1363299\/Its-girl-Sophie-Dahl-Jamie-Cullum-welcome-new-baby-daughter-Lyra-world.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"It's a girl! Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum welcome their new baby daughter Lyra to the world\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">It&#8217;s a girl! 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