All the tender moments between Celine Dion and the late René Angélil during 21-year marriage

The husband and wife were extremely open about their fertility journey. They endured many rounds of fertility treatments and two operations to improve her chances of conceiving and, in January 2001, Celine welcomed the couple’s first child, René-Charles.

The little boy was baptised in July at the chapel of the Notre-Dame Basilica, where his proud parents had married six years earlier.

The loved-up pair attended a Grammy Awards after-party in 2002, shortly after Celine announced an upcoming three-year residency in Las Vegas, named A New Day…

The move was deemed risky at the time, but the gamble would pay off and Celine ended up extending the run of shows by a further two years. To date, the residency has grossed more than $500 million.

The couple are pictured at Caesar’s Palace following the debut of Celine’s Las Vegas residency in 2003. The continually sold-out show proved wildly successful, making the singer the “most profitable music act in Las Vegas” since Elvis Presley, according to Market Watch.

The songbird was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004, with her proud husband René cheering her on at the ceremony.

Later that year Celine was presented with the Diamond Award at the World Music Awards for being the World’s Best Selling Female Artist of All Time in 2004.

In 2007 the Angelil family took a well-deserved break from Celine’s Las Vegas show to spend some time together during a holiday at Disneyland.

The fun-loving couple embraced the “masked ball” theme during a farewell party that was held for the cast and crew of Celine’s Las Vegas show in 2007.

The 15th of December 2007 proved to be an emotional day for Celine. The singer, who had just finished her last performance of her show A New Day… at Caesars Palace, was embraced by her husband and son as fans threw roses at the stage.

Almost three million people watched her perform 717 shows since the show first opened in 2003.

Fans were thrilled to see how much the couple’s son had grown, as the Angelils attended the Portland Trailblazers vs. New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden in December 2009.

After the birth of her twins in 2010 and a brief hiatus from show business, Celine was ready to return to the stage.

Holding baby Nelson (with René nestling twin-brother Eddy), the family was greeted by throngs of fans as they arrived at Caesars Palace, where Celine was due to begin rehearsals for her new Vegas show. The songbird told HELLO! Canada exclusively that the babies, who were conceived after six IVF attempts, had made her life “extraordinary”.

Celine and René were pictured at the Oscars in 2011, where Celine performed the Charlie Chaplin song Smile during the In Memoriam tribute.

The singer was decorated with the Order of Canada in July 2013, just a few months before announcing that she was taking a hiatus to take care of her increasingly ill husband.

This was one of the last times René was pictured in public with his wife Celine, before his death in January 2016.

In his final years, René had stepped down as his wife’s manager to focus on his health, but was still involved in business decisions. After undergoing surgery and slowing down his career, in 2015 it was revealed by Celine that René’s illness had progressed.

After passing away in January 2016, the national funeral service was held two weeks later at the Notre-Dame Basilica, where the pair had married and baptised their children.

In the years following her husband’s death, Celine has continued to be a devoted mother to their three boys.

She has also faced her own health woes in recent times after being diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome in 2022.

Celine shared the news that she had been diagnosed with the neurological disorder with fans in an emotional video in which she explained she was forced to cancel her Las Vegas residency and the North American and European legs of her Courage world tour.

“I’ve been dealing with problems with my health for a long time, and it’s been really difficult for me to face these challenges and to talk about everything that I’ve been going through,” she explained.