The wife of the Head of State travels this weekend to Marseille, where she inaugurated this Friday a unit for children victims of domestic violence at La Timone hospital. But the day after Elizabeth II’s death, Brigitte Macron opened a brief parenthesis on her visit to express her “very great emotion” in front of the press. She described an “incredible” sovereign and said her meeting will remain etched in her memory.
“Milestones”
Referring to the deceased, he first felt: “Like all of you, she has played my life, our lives. And when I say ‘play’ it is ‘putting’ milestones. She was very important to us.” “Two words right off the bat: great admiration and immense respect,” she added.
Admiration and respect due to the way Elizabeth II assumed her position according to Brigitte Macron: “She always fulfilled her commitments, with all the love she was capable of. So a huge thank you, a huge thank you to what she has been for us.” “For me she was her, she is and will continue to be the queen,” insisted the wife of the President of the Republic.
Cornish souvenirs
Brigitte Macron once crossed paths with Elizabeth II. It was last year, in mid-June, on the occasion of an international summit organized in the United Kingdom where she accompanied Emmanuel Macron. She plotted:
“I met her last year in Cornwall, at the G7. She came to meet us spouses. She had a word of finesse, intelligence for each and every one of us. That I was absolutely unprepared. She had the intelligence of situations. It was totally intuitive.”
That’s when he blurted out, “She was amazing. I only met her once, but I’ll never forget her.” Brigitte Macron ended her statement by greeting the British and the citizens of the Commonwealth: “I wanted to tell all British people and all their subjects of all our solidarity and our friendship. We are with them. We have very close ties of friendship.” strong and indestructible.
A last sentence that sounds like a slider addressed to the new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, who at the end of August had questioned the good intentions of Emmanuel Macron regarding the United Kingdom, refusing to say whether he considered it ” friend or enemy ” of his country.
Echoing Emmanuel Macron’s tribute
The latter also expressed his feelings after the death of the queen of England, although more formally. In a video posted online this Friday, Emmanuel Macron stated in particular: “Elizabeth II mastered our language, she loved our culture and she touched our hearts.”
The Head of State then went to the British Embassy, depositing his condolences there in the book provided for this purpose: “Here, in Paris, which he loved so much, as in all parts of France, the pain of our compatriots is enormous. “.
Source: BFM TV
