Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez got married without his family being in attendance and apparently told them just 30 seconds before the ceremony.

The couple tied the knot at their new £30million mansion near Lisbon in front of just four witnesses and their children on Tuesday.

Cristiano's mother Dolores Aveiro and his three siblings Hugo, Elma and Katia, were not present at the intimate civil ceremony, which took place at 1.30pm.

His family found out he was marrying his long-term girlfriend just moments before he married Georgina, a new local report has claimed.

Jornal de Noticias published a copy of the couple's marriage certificate late on Thursday, saying only four witnesses were present as well as their children.

It was Portuguese television presenter Cristina Ferreira who claimed the footballer's family's absence from his big day will 'cause problems'.

Speaking on TVI programme Dois at 10, she said: 'It will cause a lot of problems because the family wasn't present.

'And they shouldn't even have known. Or if they did know, it was 30 seconds beforehand.'

Claudio Ramos added on the programme: 'I really hope that what we said here, which had to do with the impressions we get from what exists on social media, did not actually cause sadness in the family, that things were not as they apparently seem.'

Dolores, who has had to refute claims over the years of a bad relationship with her daughter-in-law, gave her blessing to the star couple's union.

Shortly after they announced they were married she posted a heart emoticon on Cristiano's official social media alongside the snap he published of their rings.

Cristiano's sister Katia, who is based in Brazil but travelled to her native Madeira at the weekend to meet family and friends, did the same.

She has yet to address reports she and other members of Cristiano's family were absent from the Cascais wedding ceremony.

Georgina's sister Ivana, Cristiano's long-time friend Miguel Paixao and a Spanish couple named as Jose Rodriguez Sangil and his wife Monica Goncalez Martinez were the only witnesses.

Registrar Maria Manuel Ferreira de Campos Folhadela de Oliveira travelled from the northern Portuguese city of Porto to Cascais to officiate the ceremony.

And the star couple, who married exactly one year to the day after they announced their engagement on social media, have decided to keep their pre-nuptial assets separate despite tying the knot after a decade-long romance.

They signed a pre-nup agreement to define their property regime on August 10 a day before the ceremony at a public notary's office in Lisbon.

Cristiano's team had confirmed earlier this week that the footballer and his partner married on August 11 in an 'intimate' ceremony in Cascais after the couple posted photos of them wearing their wedding rings on their Instagram pages.

It followed speculation which turned out to be false that they were due to marry at Funchal Cathedral in Cristiano's native island of Madeira on Saturday.

No details had emerged about where in Cascais they had wed or who exactly was at the ceremony apart from their children.

Overnight respected Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias published a copy of the marriage certificate showing it took place at Cristiano's massive built-from-scratch mansion in the upmarket residential area of Quinta da Marina.

And it also evidenced the fact so few people were invited that there appeared to be no place for Cristiano's mum, who gave the union her blessing shortly afterwards by posting a heart emoticon on her son's Instagram in response to his wedding announcement, or the rest of his family apart from his kids.

Jose Rodriguez Sangil was described as a Spanish jeweller by Portuguese press.

The marriage document listed Cristiano's full name and age of 41 as well as his birthplace and the names of his parents including his late father Jose Dinis.

The same details were listed for 32-year-old Georgina, born in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires and referenced by her full name of Georgina Luisa Rodriguez Hernandez.

They will both keep their pre-marriage names, unlike in the UK where newly married women normally take their husband's surnames.

The marriage certificate was recorded as number 1,493 of this year but appears to have been listed at Porto's Registry Office instead of Cascais which is the municipality where the wedding took place.

Cristiano and Georgina are now back in Saudi Arabia where the Portuguese international plays his club football for Al Nassr, ahead of the start of the new season tomorrow.