03 February, 2008

La premiere dame

Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni are married. She will be the best looking First Lady since Marie-Antoinette, and the first to sing in an advert for a foreign car.

Don't forget Sarkozy is not just head of the executive but head of state; one wonders what the British reaction would be if the Duke of Edinburgh were in an advert for Peugeot. On balance I think it would be a lot more entertaining than Ms Bruni singing 'Bang Bang My Baby Shot me down', particularly if, to make the comparison fair, HRH were singing the same song.

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