Carla Bruni reveals love of Shakespeare
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
Last Updated: 11:23am BST 15/04/2008
France's First Lady Carla Bruni has disclosed a secret passion - the
works of William Shakespeare.
After charming the British during the recent state visit of her
husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Miss Bruni is planning a
return visit in search of the Bard.
"I'm keen to visit Stratford because I have such a love of
Shakespeare," the former supermodel tells British Airways magazine
High Life.
"My friend Marianne Faithfull - or 'my dear professor', as I like to
call her - insists that I read a couple of his sonnets every day."
Seasoned Bruni-watchers will know that she is of a literary
persuasion.
The 40-year-old beauty counts folk singing among her many
accomplishments and her latest album, No Promises, sets the poems of
WB Yeats, WH Auden and Emily Dickinson to music.
While Britain has fallen for Miss Bruni, her talents are not
appreciated in all corners of the world.
A hospital in Cambodia has refused a donation raised from the sale of
a **** picture of Miss Bruni, on the grounds of morality.
Beat Richner, a Swiss paeditrician who runs the Kantha Bopha
Children's Hospital Association, turned down an offer of $91,000
(=A346,000) - the sum paid in a Christie's auction last week for a 1993
photograph of Miss Bruni, shot for Italian Vogue.
advertisement"My decision was taken out of respect for our patients
and their mothers", he told Le Matin Dimanche.
"Accepting money obtained from exploitation of the female body would
be perceived as an insult".
In Cambodia "use of ****ity is not understood in the way it is in the
West", he added.
He would not allow the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital Association
"to be involved in the media exploitation of Madame Bruni".
The money will be donated instead to a Swiss research institute
working to provide fresh drinking water in poor countries.
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