Bardella’s press team did not respond to a request for a comment.
Bardella and de Bourbon have been romantically linked since they were caught on camera leaving a media event together and taking the same car in January. Asked if he was in a relationship with de Bourbon later that month, Bardella said he was a happy man and no longer single, but that “my private life belongs to me.”
Scrutiny of Bardella’s private life is certain to increase as France gets closer to next year’s presidential election. He is set to run as the National Rally candidate if Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement conviction denies her a spot on the ballot — and most polls show him comfortably winning the first round of the contest.
Since bursting onto the political scene, Bardella has carefully crafted an image of himself as a self-made man who, as the child of blue-collar Italian immigrants, understands the French working class and can be their standard-bearer.
His partner has led a much different lifestyle. A duchess by title, de Bourbon offers glimpses of her glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle on Instagram, spent between Paris, Monaco and the ski slopes of St. Moritz.