Tic-tac… Only a few days left before the arrival of King Charles III in Paris. On March 26, 2023, the son of Queen Elizabeth II will pay his first state visit to France. For the occasion, Gilles Bouleau returned to his first meeting with the father of William and Harry. “It was a very long time ago, in 1992”he confided through a video posted on the Twitter account of TF1 Info.
“Prince Charles, as you know, he has 200 to 250 official engagements a year. And there, to his great misfortune, he was invited to the European Parliament, in Strasbourg. The Strasbourg deputies inflicted something dreadful on him! A day of archi-technical palaver. He was there, guest of honor. He had to listen with headphones that weren’t adjusted. There were ten different languages, he didn’t understand anything. He was stoic and I remember very well, I was next to him and he was smiling. The whole Assembly was asleep and he was there”remembers the journalist.
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“There is a very simple code”
“At the end he comes out of the hemicycle and as you know he has two bodyguards, but who are discreet. Not like Rihanna’s bodyguards or a normal head of state so he can’t not snub you and say, ‘I don’t want to answer you.’ So I approach Prince Charles a meter away from him and I ask him a question which was quite silly: ‘How was the day?’ And there I see that the bodyguards are looking at the feet of Prince Charles and I wonder why”continued Gilles Boulleau
According to him, there is “a very simple code”. “If the prince agrees to talk to you, he stops and his two feet are parallel to the ground. If it bothers him and he’s tired, he walks. We don’t take you with big muscles by putting you next to you .” A surprising anecdote.
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️ “I tried to ask him a question, his bodyguards looked at his feet!” @GillesBouleau looks back on his first meeting with Charles III RDV on March 27 from 9:20 a.m. on @TF1 to follow King Charles III’s state visit to Paris #AKingInParispic.twitter.com/poqRq7UC0k
— TF1Info (@TF1Info) March 23, 2023