“The most eminent member of the royal family is not what one believes”: journalist Marc Roche tells him his life with the Windsor

A long banquet table richly decorated, and framed with red carpets, with Queen Elizabeth II and far from the other side, the journalist Marc Roche. This image illustrates the cover of the book that publishes with Albin Michel, My life with the Windsor, Buckingham’s latest secrets. From the coverage, the tone is established, Marc Roche Gravita about thirty years within the “Rota Royal”, around the royal family. It is not close, but not far away. Observing everything and noticing everything.

Therefore, he recounts his life as a journalist accredited to follow the British royal family, describing with humor their meetings with the members of the royal family and the circles that revolve around the “system” of the Buckingham Palace with the opacity learned.

“Under transparency appearances, the monarchy has the art of blurring the clues of the taboo subjects, starting with sentimental life, money and lifestyle. They lead us to portray it as you want to see instead of as we see it,” he wrote.

The “Pesquera Tez” by Queen Elizabeth of the Queen

The members of this royal family almost met them all. Of Queen Elizabeth II, “The fishing complexion, blue eyes, direct look, right profile, magnificent teeth and permanent hairstyle,” crossed several times, on a stretcher, seems the warmest and balancing of this family.

Marc Roche meets Elizabeth II for the first time in 1991 in Harare in Zimbabwe. “It was much smaller than I thought, his hand was very soft, he did not finish his ends of the sentences, but I remember his blue eyes of ice,” he trusted the microphone from the microphone of the microphone of Real podcast.

Above all, it is the exchanges with the sovereign who mark the journalist. He remembers a “very fearful conversation.” “She did not want to advance in any subject, she distrusts you. And I was very surprised by her art of getting rid of an insolent in my style.” He still entrusted him half words, on April 23, 2002, his desire to see the French “voting well”, in front of the second round of the presidential elections, who opposes Jacques Chirac to Jean-Marie Le Pen.

But more than the queen’s personality, it is what she represented what impressed the journalist: “History with a capital H”, “and that made us forget all my quite negative impressions.”

“Diana lived terrified”

Among this gallery of real personalities, there is also Princess Diana, her “neighbor” crossed in much less formal circumstances, since Marc Roche frequented the hairdresser whom the princess took her children. “I think I talked to her twice, and that I quickly saw that I was a journalist.”

He describes “a cold and shy personality, not particularly comfortable with the public, always on the defensive, and especially paralyzed by the media. They irronate the Kensington Palace garden to desperately try to find their lover.” He concluded: “She was a woman who lived terrified.”

Charles, “Pingre” and “Caprichoso”

Prince Carlos, who became King Carlos, is barely better. He describes him as an authoritarian and tyrannical character with the people who work for him. “Charles III is not a priori comprehensive,” said Marc Roche. “It’s a pinger, he hates confrontation, he laughs at his own jokes, he is capricious, he is terribly demanding towards his staff who pays very badly.” We recently had the demonstration, with the Honda of the High House gardeners, particularly poorly treated and paid at least the union.

William, “reactionary”, Kate, “very cold and not very sure of herself” … Few royal family members seem to be a pleasant trade. In addition to Camilla, an imbued with “Serena Solidness”, “reassuring” and “warm”, some are doing well. Pieces are often informed, such as Sophie Wessex, wife of the king’s younger brother, Prince Edward, “a plebey” full of warmth and comprehensive understanding, or Sarah Ferguson, Andrew’s ex -wife, “mitming and sympathy.” However, he hit another scandal, the York Duchess, runs the risk of being much more discreet.

Harry “the rebel”

“The one who really would have liked to meet,” is Harry, says Marc Roche, “he is the only one who hastened the stretchers and created a rebel personality.” Therefore, it is one of the few analysts to see in the “Megxit”, the departure of Harry and his wife Meghan for the United States, “a success.” For him, Harry, “The ‘Replacement wheel’, has never been satisfied with the role of figurative” that was assigned to him. Be witness to your recent surprise visit to Ukraine with wounded soldiers. “So I think that the most eminent member of the royal family is not what we believe is Harry the rebel.”