Emmanuel Macron paid tribute in a video to Isabel II, who died this Thursday at the age of 96. “Today we are very sad. It is with great sadness that the French people learned of the death of Her Majesty Elizabeth II”, begins the President. He then salutes “her wisdom and her empathy”.
“His death leaves us with a feeling of emptiness,” said Emmanuel Macron in particular.
After praising “his rare but powerful words and his unwavering dignity”, he underlines his “very particular affection for France”.
“She will be deeply missed”
Et de rappeler: “Elizabeth II maîtrisait notre langue, aimait notre culture et touchait notre cœur. Depuis son couronnement, elle a connu et s’est entretenue avec tous nos présidents. Aucun autre pays n’a eu le privilège de la recevoir aussi souvent than us.”
Emmanuel Macron believes that France and the United Kingdom “not only shared a cordial understanding”, named after this founding act of Franco-British friendship dating from 1904, “but [plutôt] a loyal, sincere and warm association”.
It also commits to commemorating and perpetuating “the values that it has never ceased to embody and promote. The moral force of democracy and freedom”. Finally, the Head of State sent “his most sincere condolences from him to His Majesty the King, to the Royal Family, to the British people and to all who loved the Queen.”
“She will be deeply missed,” he concluded.
“A Friend from France”
Shortly after the Queen’s death on Thursday, the Head of State wrote a first message on his social networks to greet “a friend of France who has forever marked her country and her century.”
If you have not received Elizabeth II at the Elysee since her election in 2017, Emmanuel Macron has greeted her three times. A first time in the UK, on June 5, 2019 during the 75th anniversary of the Portsmouth Landing. Then on December 3, 2019 at Buckingham Palace on the sidelines of the NATO summit. Then on June 11, 2021 in Cornwall for the G7 summit.
Source: BFM TV
