特朗普夫人梅拉亚尼新畅销书披露了哪些家庭生活及与王室交往内幕

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梅拉尼娅·特朗普用她的新回忆录《梅拉尼娅》给读者创造了惊喜，揭示了秘闻，透露自己在堕胎权问题上与丈夫意见不合，并抛开对家庭隐私的担忧讨论了她的儿子巴伦。

她还披露，尽管她不具备安全审查资格，但时任总统唐纳德·特朗普仍邀请她进入防卫森严的白宫情况室观看美军最保密的特种部队三角洲的超级秘密行动。

这本在周二出版前被《每日野兽》提前得到的自传，几乎没有对她的生活道路进行反思或表示遗憾，也很少评论她作为比她大24岁、后来成为她丈夫和美国总统的亿万富翁特朗普第三任妻子的生活现实。

但这本插入178张照片的184页回忆录确实有一些关于她如何从南斯拉夫的一名女学生成为一位美国前总统夫人，也可能是下一任美国第一夫人的自述和轶事。

一、出生于培育出洋葱新品种的家庭

梅拉尼娅（相对）详细地描述了她对家庭的骄傲，尤其是她的外祖父安东，她透露，“二战动荡期间，这个生活在（斯洛文尼亚的）家庭“逃难”到奥地利，她的母亲于1945年7月出生在奥地利的一个小镇。

她没解释她来自被法西斯意大利和纳粹德国分裂的国家的外祖父是如何成为奥地利难民的，但她说他们后来回到了自己的家乡拉卡。

她在写到她的祖父时说：“正是在这里，他继续培育了一个流行食材——一种著名的带甜味的红色洋葱品种拉卡洋葱，它很快成为斯洛文尼亚人民的最爱。”

也许令人惊讶的是，这似乎是事实：据《华盛顿邮报》报道，她的祖父安东·乌尔克尼克几十年来一直是拉卡地区这个品种洋葱的最大繁殖者和种植者。

二、沙特和英国王室十分喜欢我

书中还描述了两个国家的国王：年迈的沙特阿拉伯国王萨勒曼和英国国王查尔斯。

梅拉尼娅详细描述了她和丈夫前往沙特阿拉伯进行第一次访问时与沙特国王的会见，称沙特国王的头衔还包括“两个神圣清真寺的保护人”。

她写道：“我曾被警告说，与女性握手不是穆斯林的传统，国王可能不会与我礼貌的握手。但是当我们见面时，他不仅和我握手，还吻了它！这是一个很有希望的开始！"

有趣的是，2019年的视频和静态照片均没有显示出这样的吻，但根据《国会的争斗和特朗普的美国未来》一书，她的丈夫在2018年的一场筹款活动上讲述了类似的轶事。该书作者、记者杰克·谢尔曼和安娜·帕尔默报道说，特朗普：“我下了飞机，我和他握手，但未鞠躬，梅拉尼娅也向他伸出了手。他抓住她的手，吻了她的手，吧！吧！吧！吻了三次。我去，嘿，国王停下吧，三个吻！足够了。"

另一位她“真正联系”的老年国家元首是英国女王伊丽莎白，女王曾在接待她和特朗普的温莎城堡转到她坐的座位为她倒茶。梅拉尼娅说，女王送给她一个镶嵌着玫瑰、蓟和三叶草的银盒子，这“呼应了白金汉宫一个房间的复杂天花板图案”，因为这三种植物是女王统治的英格兰、苏格兰和爱尔兰的象征。

她还透露了与查尔斯国王的长期联系，她说：“我们与查尔斯国王通信至今。”

她说，在白金汉宫的国宴上，她坐在他旁边，“与他重新建立联系绝对是一种乐趣。”照片显示，两人于2005年在纽约相识。她写道：“这一次我们进行了一个有趣的对话，关于他对环境保护的根深蒂固的承诺。”但却忽略了她丈夫长期对气候变化的否认。

三、会见罗马教皇时请他为自己的念珠祝福

梅拉尼娅讲述了她以“天主教徒的身份”在梵蒂冈会见教皇方济各是多么兴奋，并带了一串念珠“作为我的信仰和婚姻的象征”接受他的祝福。(但有人看到她在与丈夫举行婚礼的海湖庄园附近圣阿波利拉教堂参加圣诞节和复活节仪式，而不是附近的天主教教堂。这是她丈夫的第三次婚姻，也许是因天主教会不允许离婚后再婚吧。)

梅拉尼娅在书中写道，当她见到教皇时，教皇为她的念珠祝福，然后问她：“你给他吃什么？波蒂卡？”

“‘是的，披萨。’我回答，没有完全听到清他的声音。然后我意识到他问的是传统的斯洛文尼亚糕点波蒂卡。"

四、谢谢！我不要寿司

梅拉尼娅在书中描述的赴国外访问遇到的食物问题，不仅延伸到后来将她的丈夫形容为“驱逐移民者”的世界天主教徒领袖（教皇）的轻质玩笑。还有在日本外交菜单上的寿司问题。

她在写到与特朗普2019年访问日本的准备工作时说：“我让人知道我不吃生鱼。然而，我还是努力尽可能地尝试当地的美食。在东京那天晚上的晚宴是一种当地风味与食材的美味混合，展示了最好的日本美食，同时也适应了我的喜好。"

梅拉尼娅所用晚餐是否是当地风味令人怀疑。当时的《独立报》报道说，为她准备的是“烤土豆、沙拉、烤鸡与和牛”。

五、她都为哪些客户拍模特照

尽管她的裸体模特作品集众所周知，而且在回忆录中，作为令她自豪的一种“艺术形式”被提及，此外，梅拉尼娅也提到了她的一些模特客户。

其中包括梅西百货、内曼·马库斯、加拿大版的Elle杂志、健身和魅力杂志以及纽约百货公司波多夫·古德曼百货。（具有讽刺意味的是，她的丈夫在认识她前被指控曾涉嫌在更衣室性侵咨询专栏作家让·卡罗尔。但她没有提到这个案子。）

All the Wildest and Weirdest Revelations in Melania’s Book. By Hugh Dougherty . The Daily Beast. Oct. 07, 2024

Melania Trump has already created surprise and intrigue with her new memoir, Melania, revealing that she is not aligned with her husband on abortion rights and casting aside concerns about her family’s privacy to discuss her son Barron.

She also reveals how then-president Donald Trump invited her to watch the most secret military unit, Delta Force, conduct an ultra-classified mission from the White House situation room, its most guarded facility, despite not having a security clearance.

The book, seen by the Daily Beast before publication on Tuesday, offers little in the way of reflection or regret about her path in life and few comments about the reality of being the third wife of a billionaire businessman-turned-commander-in-chief 24 years her senior.

But the 184-page, 178-photo book does have some intriguing claims and anecdotes about her own rise from a schoolgirl in Communist Yugoslavia to a former and possibly future first lady of the United States.

My Family, the Onion Pioneers

Melania writes at (relative) length about her pride in her family, particularly her maternal grandfather, Anton, revealing that the family had been “displaced” to Austria “during the turbulent years of World War II,” and that her mother was born in an Austrian town in July 1945.

She does not explain how a family from a country which had been split between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany had ended up being refugees in Austria, but says they returned to their native village of Raka afterwards.

“It was here that he would go on to breed a culinary masterpiece—the renowned ra?ka ?ebula, or Raka onion, a sweet red variety that quickly became a favorite among the Slovenian people,” she writes of her grandfather.

Perhaps surprisingly, there appears to be truth to this: Anton Ul?nik, her grandfather, was reported by the Washington Post to have been the largest breeder and grower of the variety for many decades in Raka.

Royals Just Love Me

Two kings feature in the book: the elderly King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and UK’s King Charles.

In her first meeting with a king, when she and her husband traveled to Saudi Arabia for the very first foreign visit, Melania details her encounter with a man whose titles include “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.”

“I had been warned that it wasn’t Muslim tradition to shake hands with women and that the king might not extend me the courtesy,” she writes. “But when we met, he not only shook my hand but kissed it! This was a promising start!”

Intriguingly, video and still photos of the event show no such kiss, but her husband told a similar anecdote at a fundraiser in 2018, according to 2019 book The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America. Its authors, journalists Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, reported that he said, “So, I get off the plane, I shake his hand, I don't bow, and Melania offers her hand. He grabs her hand, and kisses her, mwah, mwah, mwah. And I go, hey, King, lay off, that's enough—three kisses!”

Another elderly head of state with whom she “truly connected” was the UK’s Queen Elizabeth, who she describes pouring tea at Windsor Castle with her corgis at her feet. The queen, she relates, gave her a silver box inlaid with the rose, the thistle and the shamrock. Melania says it was “echoing the intricate ceiling motifs of” one of Buckingham Palace’s rooms, although the three are also the symbols of England, Scotland and Ireland.

And she reveals a long connection to King Charles, saying “we exchange letters with King Charles to this day.”

She says of sitting next to him at a state banquet in Buckingham Palace, “it was an absolute pleasure to reconnect with him.” The two had met, photographs show, in 2005 in New York. “This time we engaged in an interesting conversation about his deep-rooted commitment to environmental conservation,” she writes—omitting her husband’s long-term climate change denialism.

A Very Papal Mix-Up

Melania recounts how excited she was to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican “as a Catholic,” and brought a set of rosary beads to be blessed “as a symbol of my faith and marriage.” (She has been seen attending Christmas and Easter services at Mar-a-Lago not at a nearby Catholic church but an Epsicopalian one where she was married. It was her husband’s third marriage; the Catholic Church does not permit remarriage after divorce.)

When she met the Pope, he blessed the rosary, then asked, “What do you give him to eat? Potica?”

Melania writes that her Catholic faith compelled her to take a set of rosary beads to be blessed by Pope Francis.

“‘Yes, pizza,’ I replied, not fully hearing him. Then I realized he was inquiring about potica, the traditional Slovenian pastry.”

No Sushi for Me, Thank You

Food issues on foreign trips did not just extend to light banter with the leader of the world’s Catholics who later described her husband as “the one who kicks out immigrants.”

There was also a diplomatic problem in Japan: sushi was on the menu. “I made it known that I do not eat raw fish,” she writes of preparation for the first couple’s 2019 visit there. “However, I still made an effort to try local cuisine whenever possible. That night in Tokyo, the meal was a delicious blend of flavors and textures, showcasing the best of Japanese cuisines while accommodating my preferences.”

Quite how traditional it was is open to question. At the time it was reported by The Independent to be “baked potatoes, salad, grilled chicken, and wagyu.”

Who She Modeled For

Although her nude modeling portfolio is well known, and in the memoir a point of pride as an “art form,” Melania also names some of her modeling clients.

They include Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, the Canadian edition of Elle magazine, Fitness and Glamour magazines and the New York department store Bergdorf Goodman. (In an ironic twist, her husband has been found liable for sexually assaulting the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in one of its changing rooms before he knew Melania. She does not mention the case.)

There was a Japanese lingerie catalogue, an ad campaign in Venice, and the ultimate seal of approval: “My larger-than-life image on a billboard in Times Square.”

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