Don't 'equate my husband's political views with my own,' Sheena Greitens chides former friend

Sheena Greitens may be standing by her scandal-plagued husband, Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens. But a rare glimpse into the trans-Atlantic social circle of the publicity-shy first lady indicates she doesn’t stand by his conservative politics.

In an online falling-out with an old friend, Sheena Greitens chides her for writing a British magazine article that appears to “equate my husband’s political views with my own.” Greitens calls the assumption “quite frankly bizarre.”

The friend retorted on Facebook: “The Sheena I knew would not have stayed in this marriage.”

The latest (and probably first international) ripple from Gov. Greitens’ recent scandals began with an essay this month in the London Review of Books by Deborah Friedell, an editor there.

Friedell, an American, writes of coming to England years ago on a Marshall Scholarship. Among fellow scholarship winners on the plane was the future Sheena Greitens (then Sheena Chestnut), a Washington state native.

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