Let's hope that that is the case. Let's see if the events keep up after the book-tour is over.
Apart from her daughter Alexandra, two other familiar faces went to the book signing: Prince Michel d'Orleans, count of Évreux and his 2nd wife and a prince Lobkowicz, cousin of the Duke of Parma.
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The interview of TV5 has been posted on youtube:
This time the interview focussed more on her activities for the 'Speak up rise up' charity', in that sense more comparable to 'normal' royal interviews. In addition she did give some glimpses of her private life. She said that one of her pre-occupations in raising 5 children was to prevent jealousies from popping up, as only one was the heir and the others were not. She added that she has seen that often in royal families this could be the case ....
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She told Guillaume that his life would contain lots of sacrifices, not in the least of his liberty, but also lots of privileges. She told her other children that they would not have the same privileges but also not the same sacrifices, that they had more liberties but that they all needed each other. WHat makes her very happy is that when she asks Guillaume if he is happy in his role, he says that he is very happy. If she asks the others if they would like to be in the place of Guillaume they reply that never in their life they would like to be. The Hereditary Grand Duke has shown the book to Prince Charles and he immidiately cried that it was 'apapa' and 'amama' on the cover.
As I said before -and what my impression is again from this show- is that the Grand Duchess is very good at these kind of shows and -not forgetting all that happened- is a very charming lady.
