The daughter of the French President’s wife Brigitte Macron has spoken out about the “grotesque” untrue claims her mother was born a man.
Writer Tiphaine Auzière said the outrageous allegations were comparable to the recent horrendous rumours swirling around Kate, the Princess of Wales, who bravely revealed in a video she had been battling cancer to quash conspiracy theories.
Two women who made up claims France’s First Lady was born male were punished in court after she sued, but the fines were later reduced on appeal in June last year.
During French President Emmanual Macron’s 2022 election campaign bizarre allegations surfaced and Ms Auzière they were on the same level as conspiracy theories that countries are “governed by lizards” or the “fake news” surrounding the Princess of Wales.
She told the Telegraph: “It’s the same kind of thing we went through, and I find those kinds of polemics grotesque, on the same level as being told we are all being governed by lizards.
“So our response to that, or my mother’s response, was to file a legal complaint, and I trust the law to re-establish the truth there.”
Ms Auzière, who is a daughter to Ms Macron from a previous relationship, said she was “incredibly touched by Kate’s video”, adding that the Princess had addressed the nation after “everything was polluted with fake news, each piece of misinformation worse than the one before”.
Speaking on International Women’s Day this month, Ms Auzière’s step-father President Macron also decried the scurrilous accusations surrounding his wife.
He said: “The worst thing is the false information and fabricated scenarios. People eventually believe them.”
He said: “The worst thing is the false information and fabricated scenarios. People eventually believe them.”
President Macron, 47, and his wife, 70, were married in 2007 having first met when Mr Macron was only 15 years old.
The future French leader initiated a relationship with the then Brigitte Auzière, a married mother of three at the time, who was 40 years old and working as a drama teacher at La Providence High School in Amiens, northern France.
Tiphaine Auzière’s new book Assises is out now, published by Stock.
