Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue discusses the “creepy” 24-year age difference between French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.

Brigitte was married with three children at 40 years old when she first met Emmanuel in high school, where she was a teacher.

She divorced her husband in 2006 and went on to marry Mr Macron in 2007.

“We know what would happen if the roles were reversed, or more accurately if the genders were reversed,”

“If you had a 40-year-old man married with three children falling for his student and a classmate of one of his children who is the age of 15, you know the media speculation around that would be terrible.”

The minimum age of consent in France is 15 years old.