THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: “I'm just a country peasant, this is not my natural habitat," laughs Penelope Fillon. It seems a somewhat unlikely claim from a woman who is this weekend moving into the Hotel Matignon, the 18th-century official residence of the French prime minister.
And yet there is no denying that Mrs Fillon, whose husband François has been elevated to the office by France's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has come a long way. She was raised Penelope Kathryn Clarke, in a large and close-knit family in Abergavenny. She’ll always have Paris… (more)
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