Miriam gets new job

[ariana_paris]

I noticed a large picture of Miriam González Durántez on the front page of the Telegraph this morning. Naturally, I didn't spend money on the paper but looked up the story online instead:

Nick Clegg’s wife lands lucrative job on board of Spanish building firm

Comments

[ceilidh_ann]

How nice of the Telegraph to cover the story with the title "Nick Clegg's wife..." Come on guys, she's kickass enough to warrant having her own name in the article title.

And yeah, they are gorgeous together.

[melita_r]

Yeah, I thought they met there, too. We know more than the journalists, it's official!

[melita_r]

That sounds really interesting :) I studied German for a year but was never very good at it, I still like foreign languages so I took French instead. Yeah, I think Nick studied somewhere else after his degree before going to the College, too (Minnesota? I remember it being in the US)... *has clearly stalked Nick Clegg far too much*

[okmewriting]

Lets hope she doesn't get herself into the shame mess as Cherie (sp?).

[melengro]

'Gonzalez' and 'Gonzalez Durantez' are both correct because of the way Spanish names work. For example, Hugo Chavez's name is actually Hugo Chavez Frias. People in many Spanish-speaking cultures have two last names, one from the mother and one from the father, but often use just one (usually, but not universally, the father's--Picasso and the current Spanish prime minister Zapatero are examples of using the mother's surname). If my name is Juan Garcia Vasquez and I marry Maria Martinez Ruiz, our son is going to have the name Pedro Garcia Martinez. My parents' names were something like Rodrigo Garcia Echevarria and Lirio Vasquez Cabron. These are examples, of course, and it's a little pedantic, but I just wanted to point out WHY both ways of referring to Miriam can technically be correct.

[grapefruitzzz]

That's interesting, thanks! My Spanish friend uses both his names, but I always thought it was some sort of divorce thing.

[ariana_paris]

I stand corrected. :)

[mid_century]

I like her dress & covet her husband

That is all

[secretsandliez]

This totally.