Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022 at the age of 96, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. The magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” rebroadcasts this series in four episodes which tells the story of the sovereign and her French passion. In more than seventy years of reign, she has known ten Presidents of the Republic, from Vincent Auriol to Emmanuel Macron…
What relationship did the Queen of England have with each of them? How did it advance the Entente Cordiale between France and the United Kingdom? “Finally, almost cordial”as François Mitterrand, then Head of State, said to him with a smile.
“I love you…me neither”
Between the United Kingdom and Elizabeth’s France, it’s a Gainsbourg-Birkin love story, a sort of I love you…me neither. It all started with love at first sight with the French in 1948, in Paris. The young woman of twenty-two is still only a princess.
In 1960, Charles de Gaulle is the strong man in France and in Europe. Elizabeth therefore invites him on a state visit to London. He accepted his invitation and, for the first time since the war, set foot in England, the island which had welcomed him and from where he launched his appeal on June 18, 1940…
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