Thanks M_12 for scanning & posting the interview for us!
Wallis said:
I too enjoyed the article and also found her down to earth. I also liked her "blunt" honesty, especially in regards to her father's wealth and her sister's misfortunes.
Not to mention her comments on royalty and current RULING royal families in particular! I actually am pretty blown away by some of her comments on this.
For example,when talking about how 'lucky' she is to have her father to help out financially, and mentioning how Pavlos didn't grow up "with that certainty", then Vogue quotes her: "I mean, you take any of those families and kick them out of their country and they wouldn't know how to.." and then there's a meaningful silence on her part according to the interviewer!
This is stunning stuff, folks! I'm quite serious: For one, she's talking about--dare we say criticize?-- direct family of her husband! I.e. the queen of Denmark is her husband's aunt--another aunt of his is queen of Spain!
She is basically saying that without their pretty tiara's, these royals who happen to currently have a country to rule, wouldn't be worth their salt if you took away their thrones!
In my opinion, this is an extremely interesting comment: the way I interpret it is that Marie Chantal, having been able to take a good look 'in the kitchens' of a slew of these royal families for over a decade now, has (finally) realized that perhaps these royals aren't all they're made out to be: and that without these vast, as she puts it, "well oiled machines" behind these royals, those crowned heads we love to discuss may not be all we think they are! Of course, that might be a big "DUh!" to billions of us who see these royals for what they are: human beings with a heck of an interesting pair of shoes to walk in.
That said, I also think that MC is (belatedly?) realizing that it actually takes a lot more perseverance, luck, and hard, hard, work, to be a successful 'self made' person, to start your own company and become a billionaire like her father did, than most of these people we call "royals" will ever know!
And that people like her father--who by all impressions literally earned the good fortunes that eventually came his way after years and years of sweat--are more worthy of our admiration than someone who is merely lucky to be born into a family with a throne.
I think it's really really interesting that MC, of all people, turns out to think this way AND let alone that she has the guts to express this publicly! Good for her, I say. I always had the hunch there's a sound head on this girl's shoulders, and now, in my view, it's been confirmed.
Was the interview a PR move? Of course it was! She has a new business to hawk, she might as well promote it as best she can.