{"id":520303,"date":"2026-04-08T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:53:14","slug":"englands-world-cup-winners-marlie-packer-and-rosie-galligan-expecting-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520303\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s World Cup winners Marlie Packer and Rosie Galligan expecting baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">English World Cup winners Rosie Galligan and Marlie Packer have announced they are expecting a baby together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lock Galligan, 27, is due to give birth in October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair, who are engaged, were part of the Red Roses squad that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/czjvgj81y2mo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup on home<\/a> soil last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Packer, 36, who has a five-year-old son named Oliver, also lifted the World Cup with England in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a joint Instagram post the pair, who both play for Saracens, wrote: &#8220;Baby Packer due October 2026 and your mummies and big brother can&#8217;t wait to meet you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English World Cup winners Rosie Galligan and Marlie Packer have announced they are expecting a baby together. Lock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-520303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}