A musical anecdote. During his speech at the state dinner in Versailles on Wednesday, King Charles recalled the first visit to France by his mother, Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip in 1948, shortly after his marriage.
The king then told how his mother, then crown princess, and his father had danced “until the early hours of the morning” in a famous Paris cabaret, on rue Pierre Charron, “while Edith Piaf sang.”
“It must have had an impact on me, even six months before I was born,” he joked, confiding that Édith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose” remains one of his favorite songs today.
“The French have wine, the English have humor”
Charles III then tried a little humor. Referring to the reception organized by Georges Pompidou at the Palace of Versailles on the occasion of Elizabeth II’s second visit to France in 1972, the sovereign specified that the British embassy had attempted to send several bottles of Hampshire wine for the banquet.
But finally French customs prevented him from doing so. “The French have wine, the English have humor,” concluded Charles III before President Emmanuel Macron and the more than 150 guests present at Versailles.
Source: BFM TV
