King Charles III will host French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte for a state visit to Britain this summer, Buckingham Palace confirmed today.
Mr and Mrs Macron will stay at Windsor Castle and be feted with a state banquet after accepting an invitation from the monarch to visit the UK from July 8 to 10.
It will be the first state visit from France to the UK since March 2008 when President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni were guests of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The King and Queen Camilla undertook a state visit to France in September 2023.
Charles and Camilla also travelled to France in June 2024 to join the Macrons at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
And Charles welcomed Mr Macron to London in June 2020 as the French president commemorated the 80th anniversary of his predecessor Charles de Gaulle’s ‘Appel’ – his BBC broadcast to occupied France following the Nazi invasion in 1940.
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Queen Camilla, King Charles III, Emmanual Macron and his wife Brigitte at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France, to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2024
King Charles III and Queen Camilla with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte at the Elysee Palace in Paris during Britain’s state visit to France in September 2023
Camilla, Charles, Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte attend the State Banquet at the Palace of Versailles in Paris during Britain’s State Visit to France in September 2023
Charles with Emmanuel Macron at Clarence House in London in June 2020 during a visit to the UK by the French president to commemorate the 80th anniversary of his predecessor Charles de Gaulle’s ‘Appel’ – his BBC broadcast to occupied France following the Nazi invasion in 1940
