At a private lunch last year, 73-year-old Brigitte Macron, wife of the much younger French president, told friends: ‘I’m afraid. Afraid of having done all of this, for him to abandon me.’
Madame Macron’s anxieties and jealousy are infamous within the walls of the Élysée Palace, the official residence of France’s head of state.
Her husband Emmanuel, 25 years her junior, has been linked romantically to a series of rumoured lovers, both male and female, during his time in office.
But Monsieur Macron insists it’s all baseless gossip, the tittle-tattle of a global press obsessed with sex, and he dismisses all the stories.
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