The comedian David Batra and the moderate politician Anna Kinberg Batra met at an apartment party on Södermalm in Stockholm in 1997.
– Anna and I met at a party twenty years ago. We didn’t know any of the others very well, so we started talking to each other. We stayed up talking half the night until we were almost kicked out by the host. That conversation has only continued over the years. And then and there, something clicked between us. We had fun on every level – and simply fell in love. Because we are not as different as it may seem. I appreciate her wonderful sense of humor, which she has chosen not to show much of in her role as party leader. But privately it is there, David Batra has told in an interview with Everyone’s.
Anna Kinberg Batra and David Batra have stuck together through thick and thin. Image source: Jonas Ekströmer/TT Bild
They married on June 29, 2002, and in 2006 the daughter arrived Elvira. But the couple had difficulty conceiving, and when Anna visited the Success Podcast, she told them that they tried for “several, several” years to have a child. And when Anna then became pregnant, she became very ill.
– The journey there was quite long and difficult. I was in hospital for quite a long time, a total of three months. I became seriously ill during my pregnancy, Anna Kinberg Batra told i The success podcast.
In February 2023, Anna Kinberg Batra was appointed governor and head of the County Administrative Board in Stockholm County. With the new position, the Batra family had to move into the Tessinska palace, 300 square meters in the middle of Gamla Stan next to the castle.
– It seems to be the first time in over 30 years that a family with children has moved in. Also with teenagers! Then there is little to think about, said Kinberg Batra about the move to Happened.
Anna Kinberg Batra in the Ticino Palace garden. Image source: Christine Olsson/TT BildFamiljen Batra is forced to move out of the Ticino palace
Last year, the Batra couple arranged a county dinner in the palace and everyone from the king was present Carl XVI Gustaf to Pernilla Wahlgren – where the latter actually seriously violated the dress code.
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But just a few weeks after the lavish dinner, the newspaper Aftonbladet revealed that Anna Kinberg Batra had hired three friends for top positions at the county board without first advertising the positions as it should be done. The political scandal was a fact.
In April, the Ombudsman for Justice began Per Lennerbrant an examination of Anna Kinberg Batra’s actions, and in September when the investigation was finished, he directed “serious criticism” against Anna Kinberg Batra.
The Batra couple. Image source: Claudio Bresciani/TT Bild
— The governor’s actions testify to nonchalance and a lack of respect for the basic regulations that exist to maintain public trust in public activities. Overall, she deserves serious criticism for her actions, Lennerbrant said in a press release from YES.
One of the details that JO had reacted strongly to was that one of the people Kinberg Batra hired is the godmother of her children.
– It is remarkable that the governor did not pay enough attention to the issue of slander and made sure that it was handled correctly, said JO Per Lennerbrant further.
The scandals surrounding Batra became too much and finally the Prime Minister did not see Ulf Kristersson any other way out than firing Anna Kinberg Batra. In connection with that, the Batra family is also forced to leave the Tessinska palace.
Ticino Palace. Image source: Mikaela Landeström/TT BildSVT filming the series First Lady with David Batra
In parallel with Anna Kinberg Batra’s first appointment as governor, SVT recorded the television program First Lady. First Lady is what the American president’s wife is called. Right now it is Joe Biden’s wife Jill Biden who holds the title “FLOTUS”, and before her we have seen among others Jackie Kennedy, Hilary Clinton, Melania Trump and Michelle Obama.
The SVT series First Lady revolves around David Batra and his “journey to become the best possible first lady he can”. According to The Express the program would premiere on SVT on October 22 – but with Anna Kinberg Batra being fired, David Batra is no longer a “first lady”.
In First Lady, viewers will get to follow David Batra’s journey towards becoming as good a “First Lady” as he can. Image source: Robert Eldrim/SVT
Something that has made things a bit difficult for SVT. Camilla Hagert is press manager at SVT. For Nyheter24, she tells how the channel will now deal with the sudden change – and reveals that the recording is actually still in progress.
“The program will be broadcast as planned. Recording is still ongoing. More info about the series will come soon,” writes Hagert in an email to Nyheter24.
News24 can reveal that it is a total of five episodes that will be broadcast every Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. starting on October 22.