First lady of the DPRK. The newspaper Global Post named Lee Sol Jiu “Kate Middleton of North Korea”. In 2014, she became known to everyone as the wife of the nation’s leader, until this time she was called an unknown companion of Kim Jong-un. It is known that she is about 30 years old, and that she comes from a wealthy North Korean family.
There were a lot of rumors about how she starred in the “home movie for adults” and led a loose lifestyle. According to unconfirmed reports, her husband ordered the execution of nine musicians who supposedly dissolved these rumors.
First lady of Syria. Asma al-Assad supported President Assad “in joy and in sorrow” – and when his fortune exceeded $ 1 billion, and now, when Syria is tearing apart with the civil war. Their acquaintance happened in London, where Asma worked in the investment bank J.P. Morgan, and Bashar studied for an eye surgeon. Their wedding took place shortly after the adoption of the post of head of state from his father-dictator in 2000 and began to build the image of a “modern secular leader”, having received recognition for this.
The mother of three children was repeatedly criticized. She is known for her excessively extravagant purchases and hypocritical photos in the image of a benefactor in the official Instagram account of the spouse. In 2011, because of Asma, a grand scandal broke out in the media. American Vogue printed a positive article about her (on the order of PRAs), which caused a negative response from the public. The article was deleted, and its author was fired, despite the 30-year experience in the editorial office. After some time, the same journalist wrote in another publication a sharply negative article about Asma, calling her “the first lady of hell”.
First lady of Uzbekistan. In marriage of Tatyana and Islam Karimov everything is not all right. If you believe the sites of Uzbek dissidents, the spouses broke off their relationship and were dragged into a family feud with the participation of a quick-tempered heiress.
In November 2014, the president’s eldest daughter wrote on Twitter that her mother is engaged in black magic and threatens to “destroy” her if her daughter dares interfere in the shadow business of the first lady. By education, Karimov is an economist. Her main activities are charity, and accompanying the president on trips.
First Lady of Cameroon. Chantal Biya is extremely sociable, she is familiar with Michelle Obama, Paris Hilton, the Pope. She admitted that Dior and Chanel are her favorite European designers, and many of her wardrobe items are sewn by order. She is 38 years younger than her husband, and is part of the “African Synergy” – a club that unites the first ladies of 22 countries of the continent.
One Cameroonian author wrote a book about her, depicting her life as a path “from dirt to princes.” He was accused of insulting the heroine and sentenced to two years in prison, which angered the world’s human rights defenders who called him “a prisoner of conscience.”
First Lady of Azerbaijan. Mehriban Aliyeva, the daughter of one of the most influential clans of the country, a doctor by education and the spouse of Ilham Aliyev. Despite the fact that the Azerbaijani regime is considered authoritarian and is suspected by the ruling family in the misuse of the treasury, the attitude towards the first lady is most positive. She even has honorable foreign awards.
Mehriban is known for its active social activities both inside the country and abroad. She is the head of many funds, the ambassador of goodwill of the UN, UNESCO, a number of Islamic organizations and unexpectedly she is a president of the Azerbaijan Gymnastics Federation.
First lady of Swaziland. The Queen of the Inhosikati LaMbikiza is the “favorite” among the 15 spouses of King Mswati III. At 16 she left school to marry the king, becoming the first wife he chose for himself, the first two spouses for him were chosen by the royal family. The Queen LaMbikiza violated the traditions of Swaziland wives and after her marriage learned to be a lawyer. However, she is prohibited from practicing, as her involvement in the processes can put pressure on judges.
However, she showed herself in the field of culture, and was the first Queen of Swaziland, who recorded a disc in the style of gospel and conquered the American press with her bold outfits. Not without scandal, on the 5th year of marriage, Inhosikati cheated her husband with his own minister of justice. However, King Mswati III did not punish his wife. But the minister (with the charming name Mamba) was imprisoned.
First Lady of Jordan. Queen Rania was born in Kuwait to a Palestinian family. She has an excellent education, worked for a while as a marketer in Citibank, as well as in the Amman office of Apple. Since her marriage, Queen Rania has used her position to support various sectors of public life in Jordan and beyond.
In 2011, she was named the most beautiful first lady or royal husband in the rating of the American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.
First Lady of Angola. The former model, Ana Paula dos Santos, met her future spouse, working as a flight attendant on board the presidential plane. Now she has a scientific degree in pedagogy and jurisprudence. She is also a member of the International Committee for the Development of Rural Women. One diplomat once described the president and the first lady as “a nice couple, elegant and expensive dressed, relating to everything as if they lived in southern California.”
The first lady received her share of attention from the public, announcing that her son would attend a Portuguese school in the capital city of Luanda, since public schools had a low level of education, in fact, many in Angola blame her husband.
First Lady of Zimbabwe. Grace Mugabe is 41 years younger than her husband Robert. She held the post of secretary of the president, when romantic relations began between them in the 1980s. Two of their three children were born when the president was still in his first marriage. Lovers got married during an extravagant Catholic mass a few years after the death of the wife of the head of state.
The first lady leads a rather wasteful way of life, she is known for her “round-the-world shop-tours”, because of which she began to be called Disgrace, not Grace. She, however, prefers to be called “the mother of the nation.” In one of the diplomatic dispatches for 2008, posted on WikiLeaks, the former US ambassador to Zimbabwe accuses Mugabe of collecting proceeds from corruption schemes and from diamond deposits in the east of the country where violence reigns. Grace filed a lawsuit for $ 15 million against the newspaper in Zimbabwe, which cited this dispatch.
Ex-first lady of Ukraine. The wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was not a public person and preferred a reclusive life in the Donetsk region, which was the mainstay of her husband’s party – the Party of Regions. From time to time a woman appeared at regional events and practically never visited Kiev. It should be noted that Lyudmila Yanukovich disappeared from the public and media space even before Viktor Yanukovych was elected president in 2010.
First of all, she is remembered with her performance at a rally in Donetsk during the Orange Revolution of 2004, when her husband, the then prime minister of Ukraine, was fighting for the president’s chair. Then all the media vied with each other about her skewed beret and inconsistent speech, in which Ludmila accused the Western countries of supporting the opponents of the Party of Regions, supplying them with “chopped oranges” and American felt boots.
“First Ladies” of Russia. Ludmila Putin always rarely appeared in public near her husband. She was not active during the presidential campaign of 2012, although often wives support their husbands in elections. If the married couple appeared together, the present was surprised at the complete absence of any signs of attention and emotion to each other. No smiles, encouraging looks, touch of hands and even more so – trusted fingers intertwined.
Lyudmila usually looked sad and thoughtful. June 6, 2013, Vladimir and Lyudmila Putina, gave a joint interview during an intermission at the premiere of the ballet “Esmeralda” in the Kremlin, publicly announcing their upcoming divorce.
In Western publications, in particular in the New York Post and Paris Match, information was repeatedly published about the affair between gymnast Alina Kabaeva and Putin. In the French weekly, even the article “Alina Kabaeva – the second lady of Russia?” Was published. As a documentary proof of the fact that Kabayeva and Putin are close friends, the late Boris Nemtsov presented to the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on January 31, 2011 a route sheet of the private jet Dassault Falcon 20 belonging to Comrade Putin, businessman Gennady Timchenko, performed on May 19, 2008. A private small plane took Kabaeva and several other friends of the president to Sochi (where Putin was). Kabaeva herself does not comment on her personal life.
In autumn 2015, a number of media reported that it seems that Vladimir Putin has a new lady of the heart: the absolute world champion in boxing Natalya Ragozina has replaced the womanly gymnast Alina Kabaeva. Rumors about the affair of the Russian autocrat with the 39-year-old blonde who won all the major championships in women’s boxing in the second middle weight began to spread after the Kremlin’s official website published photos from the tournament on professional combat sambo in Sochi in late August.
