Just wondered how people view Junot today. I mean, having re-read the quotes/interview in Vanity Fair, he seems to have mellowed out, and seems to speak like a statesman/diplomat (re dancing with Agneta von Furstenburg, "That was absolutely a mistake", and re the marriage, "It didn't last long, so I am not looking for any medals", and re Prince Rainier's reputed intrusiveness, "That was, ah, yet to be discovered", and Caroline at that time, "Caroline was young but not necessarily naïve. And, of course,” he adds meaningfully, “not weathered by life").
Anyway, if they had stayed together, I think they would have been well-viewed in this day and age. I don't think he would have been embarassing her at his stage in life. I mean, I can't imagine Philippe Junot these days getting publicly drunk, urinating in public on a Turkish building, etc. And he's not a blimp - he's still got a youthful figure. And his face is described as "craggy", wheras Caroline's current husband, Prince Ernst, I would charitably describe as "ham-faced" (although, I think that is perhaps largely caused by over-eating).
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