Quotable Quotes: I always knew she’d be a queen.

 

Thanks FortuneCookie for posting this randomly awesome piece of trivia.

Just when you thought Roger Federer’s life couldn’t get anymore fantastical, a recent feature on Mirka by Le Temps  revealed that she used to date UAE royalty:

 

Alors savoir pourquoi un membre de la famille régnante de Dubaï a entrepris d’épouser Mirka, 19 ans, après une cour dispendieuse. Elle devait avoir 21 ans, lui beaucoup plus. Il l’emmenait à l’entraînement dans sa Ferrari rouge, «et portait son sac jusqu’aux vestiaires alors qu’il était tout petit», rapporte un ancien entraîneur. «Mirka aimait raconter ses promenades à la Bahnofstrasse. Cétait les mille et une nuits: elle avait des bijoux partout.»

Elle n’a pas moins repoussé les assiduités princières, «parce que l’émir exigeait qu’elle abandonne le tennis». 

 

Rough translation:

 

At the time, a member of the royal family in Dubai started dating Mirka, 19 years old, after an expensive courtship. She was 21, he was a lot older. He took her to drive in his red Ferrari, “and carried her bag around the locker room even though it was small”, said a former coach. “Mirka likes to talk about their strolls down Bahnofstrasse [luxury boulevard in Zurich apparently]. It was like “1001 Nights”: she had jewels everywhere.”

She turned down the attention of the prince, “because the Emir asked her to abandon tennis.” 

Source: le temps

 

Hang on a sec. You mean, Mirka dumped a prince for this hairy 19-year-old …. THING?

 

 

Well that worked out fine for her. 

 

Royalty is – likeomgawwwd – so 1789.

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