Tag: The Inevitable Comparison

Carla Bruni (supermodel, singer, and wife of the president of France) is famous, and she's female. If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know what that means:

She's just like Princess Diana!

(And, let's not forget, so is Michelle Obama.)

From Marilyn's Royal Blog:

Princess Diana is no Jade Goody

French president Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent his wedding night with former supermodel Carla Bruni at "the opulent Palace of Versailles… ensuring that his foreign bride would, as with all first ladies, spark comparisons with the ill-fated Marie Antoinette."

There is no shortage of articles and blog posts comparing Ms. Bruni to Marie Antoinette, including this one from novelist Catherine Delors: In the grand tradition of French royal mistresses: Marie-Antoinette, Sarkozy & Bruni

As it happens, Catherine Delors is the author of the forthcoming novel Mistress of the Revolution, which is set during the French Revolution.

Our blond obsession, from Di to Paris

"The difference between our attitudes toward Diana and Anna Nicole is the difference between dreaming and gawking." The Princess and the Playmate

"She's the Princess Diana of the trailer parks," says one observer.

Give me a prurient media over watching a stoning
Anna Nicole: an irresistibly tawdry tale
Sick of Anna Nicole news? It's your fault