Macron’s ex-teacher wife, 25 years his senior, may become France’s next first lady at 64

France’s next first lady could be
a grandmother of seven who is 25 years older than her husband – and taught him
at school when he was only a teenager.

Brigitte Trogneux, now 64, was
once the drama coach of centre-Left candidate Emmanuel

Emmanuel Macron and Trogneux. PHOTO: AP

Macron, 39, who exit
polls predicted will be the next president.

Miss Trogneux last night stood by
her husband waving and grinning broadly after he won first place ahead of
National Front leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of the country’s
presidential elections.

Speaking after France’s two main
parties were kicked out of the election race, Mr Macron, who achieved 23.75 per
cent of the vote compared to Le Pen’s 21.53 per cent, said: ‘We have turned a
page in French political history.’

The result of the second round
vote on May 7 will have major implications for Britain and its departure from
the EU. Miss Le Pen wants to completely renegotiate France’s relationship with
Brussels while Mr Macron wants closer links.

Macron and Trogneux are likely to
be the next residents at the Elysee Palace with Macron becoming the youngest
leader of France in modern history.

They first met when Mr Macron was
15 – and he later made a startling promise to his teacher.

‘At the age of 17, Emmanuel said
to me, ‘Whatever you do, I will marry you!’,’ Miss Trogneux told Paris Match
magazine last year.