[1] She was educated at the same school as her future husband, Landshut Grammar, in The Allgau, Bavaria, and studied at the University of Munich graduating in Pedagogy, in 1955.

On the television show Zu Gast bei Christiane Herzog (1996), where she invited a guest (usually some prominent person) to the Bellevue Palace and discussed contemporary issues in the kitchen of the presidential residence while they were cooking.

Popular with racing driver, Michael Schumacher, professional chef, Otto Koch, and the entertainer Thomas Gottschalk; she left her critics spellbound by serenity and politeness.

After 42 years of marriage she cut a traditional figure of frau at work in the kitchen with a strong message and positive attitude.

The Christiane Herzog Foundation for the Cystic Fibrosis Sick that became a leading research institute, was named in her honour.

[6] By the time Ramon Herzog took over as president she had driven thousands of kilometres around Germany in her second hand car canvassing the support of at least half a million Germans every year.

Christiane's cookbooks became a way to reveal to the Deutsches Volk her husband's diet, giving her cookery a nationwide appeal.