Michael Schumacher set to become a grandfather after daughter Gina announces she is pregnant… three months after Formula One legend appeared ‘in public’ at her wedding

Michael Schumacher is set to become a grandfather after his daughter Gina announced she is pregnant with her husband Iain Bethke’s baby. 

Gina shared the news with fans on her Instagram page as she posted images of a foal stood next to a batch of pink balloons.

‘Impatiently awaiting the arrival of our miniature lady,’ she wrote to her 335,000 followers. 

It comes after she and Bethke got married in September at the Schumacher family’s luxurious villa in Majorca, which they sold for £27million in 2017.

German outlet BILD reported at the time that it was ‘very probably’ that seven-time world champion Schumacher was present, almost 11 years on from his near-fatal freak skiing crash, though this has been disputed.

Gina, 27, is a a success equestrian, and has been with Bethke, who is also a horse enthusiast, since 2017.  

Visitors at their wedding are said to have integrated Michael’s brother Ralf and his partner Etienne Bosquet-Cassagne, who have been embroiled in a row with the faded’s ex-wife Cora over her claims she felt ‘stabbed in the heart’ after checking out he was gay earlier this year.

The villa has a landing pad and he is regularly flown from to the villa in Port d’Andratx from the family dwelling by Lake Geneva in Switzerland.

It is part of a 15,000 square metre estate which boasts two swimming pools, a helipad, a health membership and a colossal palm-tree-fringed garden.

The ceremony lasted around half an hour according to respected Majorcan daily Ultima Hora and they said ‘I attain’ by 4pm.

There was reportedly a banquet with a dwell performance from a nation song band, although no settle is given for the alternative of visitors.

It was reported at the start of the year Gina and her boyfriend would bag married for the duration of the summer time at Villa Yasmin, which the Schumachers sold from Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.

It remains unclear whether father Schumacher did, for clear, attend the ceremony.

He saw his life change forever after a tragic accident 10 years ago.

Having spent his career expertly piloting the sector’s fastest – and dangerous machines for extra than 15 years – ahead of retiring in accurate health in 2012 aged 43, Schumacher almost misplaced his life in a freak fall good one year later.

On a family skiing holiday in Meribel, he suffered an accident and fractured his skull, leading to a traumatic brain harm. 

Having been placed into a medically triggered coma, he underwent two brain surgical procedures, surviving each against all odds, but remained in critical situation.

In April 2014, doctors began the painstaking route of of gradually withdrawing him from the coma, and by June he was deemed safe to transfer.

Contrary to experiences of his appearance, Johnny Herbert, a shut buddy of Schumacher, said that it was ‘fake news’ that the F1 legend had attended the wedding.