The papers are full of the liaisons of the French President and whilst I’m as prurient as the next person this whole affair does seem just a little silly.   You wonder what is just so attractive about this man – perhaps power is the best aphrodisiac after all – I really can’t see anything else.  And that, of course, is the what all of the great unwashed, i.e us, know about the breakdown of this relationship other than the woman scorned here isn’t some hapless maiden but a rather savvy media creature – perhaps she encouraged the media to go after her partner – after all hell hath no furry like a woman scorned.  If she did then all power to her but there is one thing to remember.  She did exactly the same thing a few years ago to the mother of Hollande’s children so we perhaps shouldn’t be too sympathetic.  But it does make a great read for the rest of us.

So why Nefertiti?  Well I’ve been watching the wonderful Art of Ancient Egypt by the ever watchable Alastair Sooke.  This week he was discussing the wonders of the Middle Kingdom and of course Nefertiti came up. Suddenly this morning the two melded together and I just wondered what she would have looked like.  Of course this is a ridicules notion as the  Akhenaten would have had many woman – even though she was his Queen.  However, I like ridicules notions.

I just want to dance the night away…