After a speech in the Senate and a passage in front of Notre-Dame de Paris, Charles III returned to the Elysée for an informal interview with Emmanuel Macron, Thursday September 21. During the day, the King of England, accompanied by Queen Camilla and French First Lady Brigitte Macron, met young people from Saint-Denis on the theme of sport. The king also gave a speech in the Senate, in front of nearly 300 senators and deputies gathered in the chamber, a first for a British sovereign. Follow our live stream.
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“Thank you for your commitment to biodiversity,” says Emmanuel Macron to Charles III. The king continues his visit to France.“The United Kingdom will always be one of France’s closest allies and one of its best friends”, declared the King of England before the French parliamentarians. He recalled the determination “unshakeable” from London and Paris to support Ukraine. He also pleaded for a new “agreement” between the two nations on the climate.
Direction Bordeaux on Friday. POn the third and final day of their state visit, the royal couple will travel to Gironde. He will visit the frigate there HMS Iron Dukea Royal Navy boat, in Bordeaux, as well as an experimental forest in Floirac, before ending with a visit to the Château Smith Haut Lafitte wine estate, in Martillac.
A dinner in Versailles to reconnect. The British sovereign took advantage of the dinner organized in Versailles on Wednesday evening to demonstrate his desire to strengthen Franco-British friendship. “It is up to us all to reinvigorate our friendship so that it can meet the challenges of this 21st century”launched the King of England in French, after the turbulence of Brexit.