25 Dec, 2014 @ 09:00
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Christmas with Gibraltar’s Fabian and Justine Picardo

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FOR Gibraltarโ€™s premier power couple โ€“ Fabian and Justine Picardo โ€“ this Christmas will be celebrated just like every otherโ€ฆ

With an all-out festive feast that would leave even Barack and Michelle Obama green with jealousy.

The Rockโ€™s First Lady told Essential Gibraltar magazine about their classic Christmas with the whole gang at her familyโ€™s Italian restaurant, 4 Stagioni.

โ€œWe close off the restaurant to the public and all the family come,โ€ said the lawyer and mother.

โ€œLast year 25 of us sat down to suckling pig, roast beef, goat, lamb and all the trimmings.โ€

The Chief Minister is clearly proud of his wife and when questioned over her place in the world of 21st century First Ladies, he told the Olive Press: โ€œSheโ€™s tougher than Michelle Obama, thatโ€™s for sure.โ€

On the Rock, she is also known as the โ€˜First Lady of Fashionโ€™, but she has a permanent collection of shoes at the menders because high heels donโ€™t stand a chance on Gibraltarโ€™s cobbled streets.

She has also revealed the story of how her husband proposed to her at the top of the Rock in January 2011.

โ€œI was in complete shock. It was a classic Fabian gesture, very romantic if slightly cheesy,โ€ she said.

โ€œIt was eight in the morning, I was wearing my jogging suit and trainers, hair tied back, no make-up on. I think I was even wearing my glasses!

โ€œFabian hadnโ€™t stopped to consider that I might have wanted to look a bit more glamorous so we could take photos of the momentous occasion,โ€ she added.

And as fate would have it, she is now expecting their second child, who just like their brother will arrive in the middle of an election year.

 

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