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? She tried to seduce General de Gaulle and convince him to let the United Kingdom into the European Community. Over time, Elizabeth II has forged privileged ties with the French presidents who have succeeded each other at the head of the state.
A phone call in the middle of the night
Under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, a painful ordeal awaits him. At the end of the summer of 1997, a phone call in the middle of the night informed him that Lady Diana had just had a car accident in the middle of Paris.
The brutal death of the ex-wife of his son Charles, the mother of William and Henry, shakes the planet. What should the queen do? Elizabeth does not yet realize how much the disappearance of the princess will shake the monarchy…
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