"Turning to English, the Prince of Wales speaks of his many visits to France over the years, adding: "I have frequently been strucky by how much our relationship means to us both. He was parachuted into France and managed to evade the Gestapo."But I have no doubt that – working side by side – the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead.”“The leaders began by reflecting on the sacrifice made by the British and French people in the Second World War and on the enduring setrength of the UK-France relationship.Second lieutenant Germain served in Egypt, Tunisia and Italy before taking part in the liberation of southern France."The French army had been defeated in only six weeks, there was despair.He hailed his BBC speech to the French people as raising "the flame of resistance like a light house so the light of hope should carry from the Thames to France"."He had to find somewhere to shelter, a place for his exile. Emmanuel Macron is visiting the UK today to mark the 80th anniversary of Charles De Gaulle's London address to France in 1940 ... visit our Syndication site. Prince Charles will host the Emmanuel Macron during a visit to London on 18 June - but the French leader won’t have to isolate on arrival. Mr Macron is also reportedly visiting the capital to honour the city and the country as a whole by awarding London France’s highest decoration – Legion d’Honneur.

'A Tory peer has said boxing the statue of Sir Winston Churchill was raising the 'banner of anarchy' in Parliament SquareThe situation has improved sufficiently for Macron to say that France could claim its 'first victory'.In a telling reflection of his status, the vandalisation of a bust of the general in northern France this week was met with a torrent of outrage. "Matt Hancock says once of the "big things" people have learnt during the pandemic is the opportunities working from home can present.After the national anthems of France and the UK were played Guard Commander, Major Piers Gambarini, invited Mr Macron to inspect the servicemen.Mr Macron says the first weapon handed to De Gaulle's Free French Forces was a BBC microphone.A statue of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill has been uncovered in Westminster ahead of the French president's visit. If you open up airports but not the Eurotunnel.As part of the visit to Number 10, the two leaders viewed artefacts documenting General de Gaulle's time in London and his partnership with Sir Winston Churchill.Earlier today Mr Macron visited the 'Ordre de la Liberation' museum in France, before watching a Red Arrows and French Alpha jets display over Paris.FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron today praised Winston Churchill and the Royal Family for providing "resistance and hope" during the darkest days of the Second World War."We want to open up as soon as we safely can."The two leaders will view WWII artefacts together in Downing Street including the ‘Order de la Liberation’ - a Cross of Lorraine in crystal glass gifted from General De Gaulle to Churchill, a microphone from the 1940s similar to that used by de Gaulle to broadcast his ‘Appel’ and a letter from General de Gaulle to Winston Churchill dated 23 June 1940 in which he discusses the launch of the French Resistance.The PM will today honour the last surviving members of the French Resistance as part of the French President's visit.“They highlighted the modern day successes of this friendship including the political and defence cooperation enshrined in the Lancaster House Agreement ten years ago."If you open up one country but not another, there is always a risk of legal challenge. Believe me, I... tell you that nothing is lost for France," he said.Mr Macron has on occasion expressed impatience with the drawn-out Brexit process.Mr Johnson has announced honorary British MBE awards to four surviving French resistance fighters - one aged 100 and three in their late 90s.The London statue of Churchill that was controversially boxed up after anti-racism protests will be uncovered for Mr Macron's visit.In his radio broadcast from London, de Gaulle urged all those who could to carry on fighting for France, words that laid the foundation of the resistance movement and helped keep alive hope that France would be liberated, as it finally was in 1944.Before heading to Britain, he will take part in the traditional annual ceremony at Mont Valerien outside Paris, a memorial for the French who fought against the Nazis and those who were killed by the occupying forces.He said the UK might not have "understood the full magnitude of their withdrawal".It will be Mr Macron's first foreign trip since the coronavirus pandemic began.Mr Macron's visit will mark 80 years since exiled wartime resistance leader Charles de Gaulle made his famous call to a defeated France from London not to give into the Nazis.Britain, which left the EU in January, is negotiating a trade deal to govern relations after 31 December, when it stops abiding by EU rules.In a sign of the tensions in the talks, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in an interview with the French daily La Croix that he still did not rule out a "no deal" scenario.Harking back to General de Gaulle's dramatic appeal on 18 June, 1940 from BBC studios will give Macron a chance to underline the importance of Anglo-French relations even after Brexit.French President Emmanuel Macron travels to Britain today for talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.Mr Macron will award the Legion of Honour to London, making it the seventh city to be decorated with France's highest order of merit, after Algiers, Belgrade, Brazzaville, Liege, Luxembourg and Volgograd.Mr Macron's status as a visiting foreign dignitary will spare him the controversial two-week virus quarantine now demanded by the British authorities of all visitors from abroad.

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