Emmanuel Macron put on a brave face this morning as he stepped out with his wife Brigitte for the final day of a state visit to Vietnam that has been overshadowed by what appeared to be a marital dispute caught on camera.
The French President last night sought to calm the furore triggered by a televised squabble with the First Lady by claiming they were just 'playfighting', while blaming disinformation campaigns for taking the video out of context.
The video in question showed Brigitte Macron giving her husband a two-handed shove in the face moments before they stepped off their presidential jet to be greeted by delegates in Hanoi on Sunday evening.
Today, the couple were seen arm in arm as the president arrived at Hanoi's University of Science and Technology to deliver a speech - a visit that came hours after Macron said 'crackpot' conspiracy theorists were working to intensify speculation around the state of his marriage.
He pointed out that he had recently been falsely accused of doing cocaine with fellow European leaders Sir Keir Starmer and Germany's Friedrich Merz, and of having a physical altercation with Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
