VIDEO - “Oh-der-Leyen-eeee!” – new EU President’s hidden talents
Warning : this is more ‘von der Leyen’ than ‘von Trapp’ family singers
As ever with those who take prominent positions in public life, archives will be scanned for illuminating or titillating tid-bits from the person’s past.
As a diversion from the politics of Ursula von der Leyen being nominated for EU Commission President, we present a moment of light relief.
Below is a programme which aired in Germany in the late 1970s we believe, although the video owner suggests the 1980s. It features a young Ursula von der Leyen as part of her family singing group. The young Ursula’s father was an EU bureaucrat working in Brussels, before becoming Prime Minister of the state of Lower Saxony in 1976.
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Credit: NDR / YouTube - Click the image to play
Readers might observe that Ursula’s older brother seems to have been less keen on appearing on the show than his sister. We suspect that a threat of permanent disinheritance was involved....
Observations
For your added entertainment, here are the von Trapp family singers from the iconic 1960s musical “The Sound of Music”:-
© UMG (on behalf of Rodgers and Hammerstein); LatinAutor - PeerMusic, Bicycle Music Co. (Publishing), LatinAutor, and 15 Music Rights Societies
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