2024-03-04 14:42:34
Headlines surrounded this relationship from the start. Now there are insights into the love of French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte.
She was his teacher, he was still a minor: Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron’s love began scandalously. A 25-year age difference separates the 46-year-old President of France and his 70-year-old wife. The newspapers were full of reports about the couple, especially when they were getting to know each other. After all, Brigitte Macron already had three children at the time: Sébastien, then 18, Laurence, then 16, and Tiphaine Auzière, who was 10 at the time.
It is the latter that now provides intimate insights into the Macrons’ married life for the first time and reveals details from their difficult family life together at the time. What’s interesting is that Emmanuel Macron is only six years older than his stepdaughter Tiphaine Auzière. Not the only reason why the girl struggled during her school years. She now reports this in an interview with the French magazine “Paris Match”.
Because her mother Brigitte was still with her father André Louis, the tabloids pounced on the case. Added to this was the special age constellation and the “teacher falls in love with student” story. “It wasn’t the age of social networks yet, but we were in a small town in the provinces. Word gets around,” Tiphaine remembers about that time some 30 years later.
“The attacks, the slander, the judgments” were very hurtful, said Tiphaine Auzière in the interview. She also felt very sorry for her father. “A breakup is painful, with a peculiarity like this it is even more painful.” Nevertheless, it was both “sorrow and opportunity” for the family. Her conclusion: At some point she not only loved her father, but also the new man in her mother’s life. She judges her stepfather, current President Emmanuel Macron: “A new composition can be an enrichment.”
The start of the relationship was difficult, especially for her as the youngest child. Nevertheless, Tiphaine still admires how Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron “stood together” back then. She also learned a lesson from this strength. She describes this as follows: “I learned from this to be open, to carry on without listening to peripheral noise, and to develop greater tolerance. I know that in moments like this you have to concentrate on what’s important.”