BRIGITTE Macron, first lady of France, has opened up about her marriage in a rare and revealing interview.
Brigitte, 70, met Emmanuel, 45, when he was 15 and she was his drama teacher at a Catholic school in northern France.
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Their relationship, which caused a huge scandal in the small town, continued to develop – but she put off marrying him for a decade.
Already married when she taught him, and with a daughter who was his classmate, Brigitte assumed he’d move on.
The French president’s parents sent him to Paris to another school, and she said she told herself that he would “fall in love with someone his [own] age”, once there.
But this turned out not to be the case as many years later – the pair, 24 years apart in age, were married.
Brigitte’s son is just three years older than her husband, and her daughters are also close to him in age.
Apparently Macron’s parents even thought…
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