Remarriage happens all around the world. One relationship ends, either through death or divorce and another relationship begins. Sounds pretty clear cut doesn’t it? Not if you are a high profile public figure, or even worse…the President of France.
This week has seen the new President, Nicolas Sarkozy, make his first state visit to the UK. Oh yes, there was the usual British pomp and ceremony, the cordial greetings, the photographs with the Queen. Just a standard, run-of-the-mill state visit, like so many before it.
But wait…who is that “pretty little thing” in the elegant grey Christian Dior number? “Ah, that is his wife,” they all mutter under their breath. “They just got married, you know”, they all whisper behind their hands. It’s as if this thing called marriage was some sort of dirty underground activity that Sarkozy has just flaunted before them.
This reminds me very much of the movie, ‘The American President’. It’s a smaltzy bit of Hollywood, but it made one glaring point; how difficult it is for a President to develop a new relationship like anyone else in the world. Michael Douglas plays a widowed US President who simply wants to date a woman that has rekindled that something in him. The difficulties it causes are immense, with the ultimate frustration being the inability to ring a florist and send a lady a bunch of roses.
Sarkozy has done very well in soldiering on and dating this lady, and ultimately marrying her. Simply because one is a Head of State, doesn’t mean that all those normal pursuits cannot still be within their grasp. The situation is different, but I am sure, like us, President Sarkozy wanted and needed those things that come with a companion in life. So forget the politics, and let him have them. Enjoy your day.
March 27, 2008
Bonjour Monsieur Sarkozy, and is this your lovely wife?
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Remarriage happens all around the world. One relationship ends, either through death or divorce and another relationship begins. Sounds pretty clear cut doesn’t it? Not if you are a high profile public figure, or even worse…the President of France.
This week has seen the new President, Nicolas Sarkozy, make his first state visit to the UK. Oh yes, there was the usual British pomp and ceremony, the cordial greetings, the photographs with the Queen. Just a standard, run-of-the-mill state visit, like so many before it.
But wait…who is that “pretty little thing” in the elegant grey Christian Dior number? “Ah, that is his wife,” they all mutter under their breath. “They just got married, you know”, they all whisper behind their hands. It’s as if this thing called marriage was some sort of dirty underground activity that Sarkozy has just flaunted before them.
This reminds me very much of the movie, ‘The American President’. It’s a smaltzy bit of Hollywood, but it made one glaring point; how difficult it is for a President to develop a new relationship like anyone else in the world. Michael Douglas plays a widowed US President who simply wants to date a woman that has rekindled that something in him. The difficulties it causes are immense, with the ultimate frustration being the inability to ring a florist and send a lady a bunch of roses.
Sarkozy has done very well in soldiering on and dating this lady, and ultimately marrying her. Simply because one is a Head of State, doesn’t mean that all those normal pursuits cannot still be within their grasp. The situation is different, but I am sure, like us, President Sarkozy wanted and needed those things that come with a companion in life. So forget the politics, and let him have them. Enjoy your day.