With uncollected rubbish lining Paris streets, critics are comparing the optics of the royal arrival to 1789
Striking workers inare refusing to provide red carpets for King Charles’s first overseas trip as monarch amid protests over rises to the pension age.
The Elysée Palace, the French president’s official residence, has said non-striking workers would set up the necessary accoutrements for the trip. “It’s very bad timing. Normally the French would welcome a British king. But in this moment, people protesting are on high alert for any sign of privilege and wealth,” said Paris-based writer Stephen Clarke, the author of Elizabeth II, Queen of Laughs.
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