French president’s office confirms state visit off after mass strikes and demonstrations across the country
King Charles’s state visit to Paris has been postponed amid mass strikes and protests, the French president’s office has said.on Sunday on his first state visit as monarch, before heading to Germany on Wednesday.
The Élysée statement said it hoped to welcome the king “in conditions that correspond our friendly relations” and that the visit would be rescheduled “as soon as possible”. The president and his wife, Brigitte, had been due to host a banquet for Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, at the former royal palace at Versailles. They were then due to travel by train to to Bordeaux on Tuesday to witness the devastation caused by last summer’s wildfires before marking the opening of the British consulate in the city and visiting an organic vineyard.
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