[maica]

“...maybe it is my British wariness of anything French”

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My husband remembers as a small child being cared for by his grandmother and great aunt, while his mother worked in a munitions factory during World War II. The old ladies used to tell him that they couldn’t understand the war, because the Royal family was German, and France had always been England’s enemy.

As a young woman, his great aunt had worked in St James Palace way back at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

[snugs]

There is obviously something in the British sykey about the French but whilst on another thread that was discussing the Edwards it came to me that my dislike of the French President is mainly on moral grounds.

He got a previous wife to act as consort even though they were separated and probably had every intention to continue with divorce proceedings. When that did not work out probably partly due to him continuing his philandering ways and probably affair with the now current wife. I always remember the snubbing of the President's family in New England last year well this makes more sense now (well to me it does), I know some will still say it was just that she did not care for President Bush and his policies but I suspect it was more likely how Sarkowsy (sp) was behaving with the girlfriend back home and she has enough of exposing herself and her son to what she was probably feeling was just a charade and public humiliation even taking into consideration that it is acceptable for French politicians to have mistresses who they often seen in public with.

[snugs]

There is obviously something in the British mindset about the French but whilst on another thread that was discussing the Edwards it came to me that my dislike of the French President is mainly on moral grounds.

He got a previous wife to act as consort even though they were separated and probably had every intention to continue with divorce proceedings. When that did not work out probably partly due to him continuing his philandering ways and probably affair with the now current wife. I always remember the snubbing of the President's family in New England last year well this makes more sense now (well to me it does), I know some will still say it was just that she did not care for President Bush and his policies but I suspect it was more likely how Sarkowsy (sp) was behaving with the girlfriend back home and she has enough of exposing herself and her son to what she was probably feeling was just a charade and public humiliation even taking into consideration that it is acceptable for French politicians to have mistresses who they often seen in public with.