Early in chapter one of her new book Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau addresses the elephant in the room. “Sometimes I’d be asked if I was ‘Trudeau’s wife,’” she writes, referring, of course, to Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada since 2015 and her husband since 2005. (After 18 years of marriage and three children together, they announced their separation last August—but more on that in a moment.) She continues that when approached in that manner, she “usually responded with a grin: ‘Well, actually, I’m Sophie—pleased to meet you!'"
She adds: "While that typically elicited a giggle, what I always hoped for was a more profound connection.”
