TOI arrive at the Raf military base of Northolt, Monday 8 July, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron gave the away to the state visit in the United Kingdomwelcomed by Prince William and Kate Middleton before continuing to Windsor Castle. But it was a detail that captured the spotlight: the Première Dame has chosen to ignore the hand offered by her husband while the scaletta of the plane descendedpreferring to lean on the handrail. A simple gesture, yes, but not accidental. In an event orchestrated to the millimeter as an official visit, each movement has a symbolic weight.
Brigitte Macron, the art of escaping the script
Already in Vietnam, last May, another gesture outside the script had made people discuss: Brigitte Macron had firmly hit the face of the president just before getting out of the jet. They had called him “a slap”, but the Eliseo had reduced the episode. Yet to look good, it is something that goes beyond the couple’s tension: the president’s wife seems simply refuse the accessory and performative role that is assigned to it. With a discreet but desired presence, It is positioned outside the rules of the protocolfar from the narrative of the First Lady as a decorative figure.
When power manifests itself in the absence
In the French system, where the Première Dame has no defined institutional assignment, its influence is built (or dissolves) in the way you choose to appear. Madame Macron is always impeccable in looks, but Avoid the theatricality of the “Cover presidential couple”. Thus, that gesture at the doors London, tells a female and contemporary vision of power: not necessarily next to it, nor behind. Rather, capable of getting noticed just when he decides not to act.
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