NEW DELHI: India will treat French President Francois Hollande’s partner Valerie Trierweiler as if she were his wife, resolving a potential protocol headache for his visit at the end of the month.
Hollande has been with Trierweiler, a 47-year-old divorced journalist, for the last five years and the couple have announced no plans to marry.
“It is confirmed that the French president is coming to India with his partner,” foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin
told AFP.
The wives or husbands of foreign dignitaries are normally given a spot next to the Indian prime minister’s wife at official dinners and a special programme of meetings and visits is also organised.
AFP
