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Deccan Herald
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Deccan Herald
July 15, 2025: Best photos from around the world
A child covers his ears as revellers hold up red scarves and candles, as they gather in front of the city's town hall to sing the traditional farewell song "Pobre de mi" (Poor me) that symbolises their sadness for the end of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain. Credit: Reuters Photo A child looks out from an autorickshaw as it rains rains in New Delhi. A horse of the French Republican Guard falls during the annual Bastille Day military ceremony on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France. Credit: Reuters Photo An official holds a swan during the annual swan census, known as Swan Upping, along the River Thames near Windsor, Britain. Credit: Reuters Photo People take part in a candlelight procession during the commemoration (Orma Perunnal) of Archbishop Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, founder of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, in Thiruvananthapuram. Members of LGBTQ+ community perform during 'Kinnar Mahotsav', in Patna. Credit: PTI Photo
LeMonde
14-07-2025
- Politics
- LeMonde
Bastille Day: Striking footage from a parade designed as a 'true military operation'
Organized as a "true military operation," in the words of the military governor of Paris, General Loïc Mizon, the Bastille Day parade reflected mounting tension over continental security. Through this year's event, military authorities wanted to highlight forces "ready to deploy" for operations, illustrating both the "operational credibility" of the French military and its "strategic solidarity" with international partners. About 7,000 service members − both women and men − took part in the parade, including 5,600 on foot. The aerial component featured 65 aircraft (including five from foreign nations) and 34 helicopters. On the ground, 247 vehicles were involved, alongside 200 horses from the French Republican Guard.
Powys County Times
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
Charles bids farewell to President Macron during touching goodbye
The King and President Emmanuel Macron enjoyed a long goodbye as the two men bid farewell after a successful start to the French leader's state visit. In a sign of their friendship, Charles and the French leader clasped hands for 28 seconds as they parted company at Windsor Castle when the first element of the three-day trip came to an end. The King and president talked during the handshake which became more poignant when Mr Macron held Charles' hand with both of his for the last few moments. Earlier the president and his wife had spent a private period laying flowers at the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II who was laid to rest at the King George VI Memorial Chapel within the castle's St George's Chapel. At the Windsor Castle state banquet held in Mr Macron's honour on Tuesday night the French leader had paid tribute to the late Queen, saying: 'To you she was your Queen, to us she was the Queen.' The last words spoken between the King and his guest was their re-branding of the famous entente cordiale to the 'entente amicale' spoken by Charles with Mr Macron replying 'thank you, so much'. They had been joined by Queen Camilla and Brigitte Macron who exchanged goodbye kisses with the men and the foursome posed for a picture before they parted company. The King and Mr Macron had earlier enjoyed a walk around the castle's gardens, with Charles showing his guest areas of work on nature restoration and biodiversity. State visits usually feature an exchange of gifts and Charles presented the president with an oak sapling for the garden of the French residence in London during the tour, a present in response to an oak from Mr Macron gifted during the King's 2023 state visit to France for the British residence in Paris. Charles is a keen watercolourist and he gave the president a set of 12 placemats of scenes from Scotland and France he had painted, and a 1931 edition of John Florio's translation of the works of French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. In return, Mr Macron gave the King a copy of the original piano and vocal score of Pelleas et Melisande by Debussy and a Sennelier watercolour set in an inscribed walnut case. Other gifts included a trumpet, made by Couesnon, from the cavalry band of the French Republican Guard and a hamper of produce from the Elysee Palace, including honey from the palace beehives. The two men appeared to be engrossed in the tour as Camilla and Mrs Macron were left waiting for their husbands to view items from the royal mews. A charabanc carriage, gifted to Queen Victoria by King Louis-Philippe of France in 1844, was waiting at the end of the Long Walk and nearby was a 10-year-old dapple grey horse Fabuleu de Maucour, given by the president to the late Queen in 2022 to mark her Platinum Jubilee. When the men arrived, kisses were exchanged but, with Camilla due to visit Wimbledon, and the royal couple attending a Buckingham Palace event, the Queen patted Charles, as she has done in the past, in an apparent bid to hurry him along and keep him on schedule.
North Wales Chronicle
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- North Wales Chronicle
Charles bids farewell to President Macron during touching goodbye
In a sign of their friendship, Charles and the French leader clasped hands for 28 seconds as they parted company at Windsor Castle when the first element of the three-day trip came to an end. The King and president talked during the handshake which became more poignant when Mr Macron held Charles' hand with both of his for the last few moments. Earlier the president and his wife had spent a private period laying flowers at the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II who was laid to rest at the King George VI Memorial Chapel within the castle's St George's Chapel. At the Windsor Castle state banquet held in Mr Macron's honour on Tuesday night the French leader had paid tribute to the late Queen, saying: 'To you she was your Queen, to us she was the Queen.' The last words spoken between the King and his guest was their re-branding of the famous entente cordiale to the 'entente amicale' spoken by Charles with Mr Macron replying 'thank you, so much'. They had been joined by Queen Camilla and Brigitte Macron who exchanged goodbye kisses with the men and the foursome posed for a picture before they parted company. The King and Mr Macron had earlier enjoyed a walk around the castle's gardens, with Charles showing his guest areas of work on nature restoration and biodiversity. State visits usually feature an exchange of gifts and Charles presented the president with an oak sapling for the garden of the French residence in London during the tour, a present in response to an oak from Mr Macron gifted during the King's 2023 state visit to France for the British residence in Paris. Charles is a keen watercolourist and he gave the president a set of 12 placemats of scenes from Scotland and France he had painted, and a 1931 edition of John Florio's translation of the works of French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. In return, Mr Macron gave the King a copy of the original piano and vocal score of Pelleas et Melisande by Debussy and a Sennelier watercolour set in an inscribed walnut case. Other gifts included a trumpet, made by Couesnon, from the cavalry band of the French Republican Guard and a hamper of produce from the Elysee Palace, including honey from the palace beehives. The two men appeared to be engrossed in the tour as Camilla and Mrs Macron were left waiting for their husbands to view items from the royal mews. A charabanc carriage, gifted to Queen Victoria by King Louis-Philippe of France in 1844, was waiting at the end of the Long Walk and nearby was a 10-year-old dapple grey horse Fabuleu de Maucour, given by the president to the late Queen in 2022 to mark her Platinum Jubilee. When the men arrived, kisses were exchanged but, with Camilla due to visit Wimbledon, and the royal couple attending a Buckingham Palace event, the Queen patted Charles, as she has done in the past, in an apparent bid to hurry him along and keep him on schedule.
South Wales Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
William and Kate to join King and Queen for Macron's Windsor carriage ride
Kate, who has opened up about her 'rollercoaster' cancer recovery, its life-changing impact and putting on a 'brave face', will carry out royal duties as part of the French leader's state visit on Tuesday. Kensington Palace has yet to confirm whether or not the princess will attend the banquet in Windsor Castle's St George's Hall in the evening. The princess, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2024 and confirmed she was free from the disease at the start of this year, last made an appearance at a grand royal dinner 20 months ago in November 2023 in honour of the South Korean president. Mr Macron's state visit to the UK, from July 8-10, is the first to be hosted at Windsor Castle, rather than Buckingham Palace, in a more than a decade since that of the Irish president Michael D Higgins in 2014. In a personal touch, the King and Queen will, on Wednesday, take the Macrons to see Fabuleu de Maucour, a 10-year-old grey gelding which Mr Macron gifted to known horse-lover the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 in celebration of her Platinum Jubilee. Fabuleu de Maucour belonged to the largely ceremonial French Republican Guard and was trained to carry the standard-bearer. Fabuleu de Maucour, the horse gifted by @EmmanuelMacron to HM The Queen in 2022 for her Platinum Jubilee, was today present at the Brigade Major's Review. Riding Fabuleu was Master of the Horse, Lord De Mauley. Watch this space to see them on 17 June for Trooping the Colour!🐴 — French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺 (@FranceintheUK) June 1, 2023 They will also view an elegant Charabanc carriage from the Royal Mews, which was a present to Queen Victoria from King Louis-Philippe of France in 1844. And the Macrons will privately pay their respects at the late Queen's tomb in St George's Chapel by laying flowers in tribute. Charles, Ranger of Windsor Great Park, will also invite the president to tour the Windsor Castle Gardens, including areas of nature restoration and biodiversity and the wider Great Park. State visits, which capitalise on the royals' soft power to strengthen diplomatic ties overseas, have moved from Buckingham Palace to Windsor for the next few years while reservicing work continues at the London royal residence and starts to affect the state rooms. The arrangements are likely to form the template for US president Donald Trump's high-profile state visit in September, but much will depend on security considerations for the US leader, who survived an assassination attempt last year. William and Kate will meet Mr and Mrs Macron at RAF Northolt on Tuesday morning on behalf of the King and travel with them to Windsor. Charles and Camilla will formerly greet their guests on a Royal Dais constructed on Datchet Road in Windsor town centre, with the castle in the backdrop as gun salutes sound in nearby Home Park. The King, the Queen, the Waleses and Mr and Mrs Macron will then take a carriage procession through the Berkshire town and along part of the Long Walk which leads to the castle, just like President Sarkozy did. A ceremonial welcome will be staged in the castle's quadrangle with Camilla, William, Kate and Mrs Macron watching as the King and Mr Macron inspect the Guard of Honour. Lunch will be hosted in the State Dining Room, after which the president and his wife, the King and Queen and members of the royal family will view a special exhibition of items relating to France from the Royal Collection in the Green Drawing Room. Mr and Mrs Macron will also travel to London on Tuesday afternoon to see the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, visit the Palace of Westminster where the French leader will address parliamentarians in the Royal Gallery, and meet opposition leaders at Lancaster House. The King and president will both deliver speeches at the banquet on Tuesday evening. Wednesday will see the president and Mrs Macron join Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Lady Starmer for lunch at Downing Street, ahead of a UK-France summit at Number 10 on Thursday. The King and Queen paid a state visit to France in September 2023 and enjoy a warm rapport with Mr and Mrs Macron, who will stay in the castle during their trip. The last state visit to the UK from France was in March 2008 when the now-disgraced president Nicolas Sarkozy, since convicted of corruption and influence peddling, and his wife Carla Bruni, were the guests of Elizabeth II at Windsor. The King, who is still being treated for cancer, has had a busy recent run of engagements, carrying out a host of visits in Scotland for Royal Week. Kate, who spoke about the challenges of her recovery during a visit to the RHS's Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital on Wednesday, took part in the Qatari state visit last December, accompanying the Emir to Horse Guards Parade with William, attending the ceremonial welcome, the lunch and the Picture Gallery exhibition.
