The Italian princess who could be France’s next first lady – POLITICO

A royal title. A jet-setting lifestyle. A multimillion-euro offshore fortune.

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella’s glitzy romance with an Italian princess has handed his critics an irresistible line of attack: that the National Rally’s champion of the working class is getting dangerously close to the very elite his party claims to oppose.

The relationship between Bardella and Maria Carolina de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles, an aristocratic socialite and influencer, has become a political liability for a party that has long cast itself as the voice of ordinary French voters against the rich and powerful.