LONDON—Charles III finally makes it across the Channel from Britain to France this week, six months after rioting and strikes
The 74-year-old British head of state’s rescheduled three-day trip to Paris and Bordeaux with his wife Queen Camilla, 76, starts on tomorrow, with the itinerary largely unchanged from March.
The French leader and First Lady will host Charles and Camilla at a state banquet at Versailles, the palace west of Paris synonymous with French royalty —and the bloody republican revolution of 1789.Many of the engagements turn around subjects championed by both couples, from the environment and sustainability to promoting literacy and youth entrepreneurship.
On both sides of the Channel, the visit is being billed as a celebration of centuries-old bonds between the two neighbors, as politicians rebuild bridges after backbiting and bickering over Brexit. Johnson’s short-lived successor Liz Truss did little to help, at one point saying “the jury’s out” when asked whether Macron — a G7 and NATO ally — was a friend or foe.
But politics is never far away on state visits, and Charles’s trip is no exception, providing the “soft power” follow-up to Sunak’s more friendly recent overtures. But he told AFP that the wider goal was to present Charles “as the environmentalist king beyond British shores”.
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