Hmm I guess part of the reason people are more willing to believe these reports are because there was an impartial report which was made public and a number of worrying reports in the run up to that.
I don't get the impression there was sexism personally - if Henri or Guillaume had done the same I think the government would have reacted in the same way. If anything I felt MTs claims of sexism were odd - you have evidence of poor behaviour, but as she is a woman should she get away with it? "Oh she just gets hysterical, its nothing" sort of style?? I don't think many would find that acceptable.
I would guess at most there might have been a feeling that constitutionally MT is - to be blunt - irrelevant - whereas if it had been Henri or Guillaume it may have been handled slightly differently, with less fuss, as its within the nation and thus the government's interest for them to be well thought of. MT is "just" the consort with no official role.
I think people were more willing to believe MT when she complained publicly about JC because it was such a shock and an unusual thing for someone to do - never mind the wife of a reigning sovereign - that just doing it in itself gave it a sort of credence - especially with Henri standing next to her at the time (if I recall correctly). As far as I can recall it wasn't denied by the Palace or JC so again it was given more credibility. Obviously now we can see there was much more to it and if we had known then what we know now I'm sure people would see it differently.
I know back when MT said all those things about JC, I (who was very young and just into following the royals as a teenager and tbh probably only saw the reports a few years later) believed them because I had no reason not to. I didn't know much if anything about JC nor much about MT other than what the Cour presented, and I certainly didn't know that Luxembourg - especially back then - seemed to have a not too interested press who just went with it rather than looking into it further. Now we know stories of MTs high handed, unfair, behaviour, stories that the siblings were unhappy with the way the sale of JCs jewels was handled and numerous other rumours - MT is a much less credible person in my eyes.
Its a bit funny the way things turn out I guess - a senior royal going to the media to complain or poor treatment, including racism, within the RF...hasn't happened since has it?!?!
I'd say it is sad JC isn't here to see how people's opinions of MT - the woman who publicly accused her of something I think was probably most likely not true, have changed. Yet I also suspect JC would take no pleasure in seeing the Grand Ducal throne being dragged through much of what it has in the last decade or so.
