Sofia Betitsa

So you weren't sleeping, you were worried all the time. You could hear explosions, you could hear drones, you could feel tremors and see smoke billowing in the skies from where the attacks were. Was it worth the risk? Definitely. I mean, being able to bring our son back and seeing him every day and being able to fill that dream of ours, it was worth every risk.

For Hugo Droschon, politics professor at Nottingham University, the answer is no, not nowadays. Why I think it works for Bardell is that that princess is not considered to be part of the establishment. She's on the one hand a link back to an ancien regime, which is against perhaps the regime that's in place today. And then her appeal is she's an influencer, which is very contemporary, and the social media. So it's a smart move in many ways.