A marriage proposal above the clouds

(CS) While Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel until now has only revealed few details of his private life, he shed light on his engagement to husband Gauthier Destenay speaking to German media.

In an interview with ZEITmagazin, a supplement in the weekly ZEIT paper, Bettel revealed that Destenay proposed above the clouds on an airplane in the sky over New York City.

Destenay used the art of song, although not striking up a tune himself and instead leaving it to an mp3, to pop the question, Bettel recalled.

“I said yes and cried,” he said. A concerned flight attendant asked if anything was wrong. “And I said: Nothing, I'm just so happy,” Bettel is quoted as saying by German news agency dpa one day ahead of the publication of the interview on Thursday.

Bettel in 2014 confirmed his engagement in an interview with the LA Times. He married Destenay in a civil service at Luxembourg City's town hall on May 15.