Hollande’s former first lady in India on charity mission

Valerie Trierweiler, the ex-partner of French President Francois Hollande, flew to India yesterdayon a charity mission, despite Saturday’s announcement that the couple have split.

Trierweiler was going ahead with the trip to promote a French charity, a charity official said yesterday, in her first public appearance since it emerged that Hollande was having an affair with a French actress.

She was set to arrive in the financial hub Mumbai for the long-planned two-day trip organised by Action Against Hunger (Action Contre la Faim, ACF), despite no longer being France’s first lady.