La Reine Mère

My mother. I have always had a complex relationship with her. From my childhood on, she would repeat to me: “To be a queen, one must be born a queen.” That sentence rang out as both a compliment and a reproach. She described me as a strong, beautiful woman with a masculine temperament, a woman who knows what she wants and overcomes obstacles. But when she scolded me, my mother would tell me that I was cold, closed off and unyielding.