Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

At the same time, the former investment analyst with a Ph.D. in economics is open about her wife, Sarah Bossard, a Sri-Lankan born filmmaker, and the two sons they are raising together.

Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany's Alternative ... Her partner is a woman, the Sri Lankan-born filmmaker Sarah Bossard, with whom she has two sons, both of whom go to school in Switzerland ...