Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022 at the age of 96, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. The magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” rebroadcasts this series in four episodes, signed François-Julien Piednoir, Marine Suzzoni and Anthony Santoro, which tells the story of the sovereign and her French passion. In more than seventy years of reign, she has known ten Presidents of the Republic, from Vincent Auriol to Emmanuel Macron…
What relationship did the Queen of England have with each of them? How did it advance the Entente Cordiale between France and the United Kingdom? “Finally, almost cordial”, as François Mitterrand, then Head of State, said to him with a smile. Between the United Kingdom and Elizabeth’s France, it’s a Gainsbourg-Birkin love story, a sort of I love you…me neither. It all started with love at first sight with the French in 1948, in Paris. The young woman of twenty-two is still only a princess.
A phone call in the middle of the night…
In 1960, Charles de Gaulle is the strong man in France and in Europe. Elizabeth therefore invites him on a state visit to London. He accepted his invitation and, for the first time since the war, set foot again in England, the island which had welcomed him and from where he launched his appeal on June 18, 1940… Under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, an ordeal painful awaits.
At the end of the summer of 1997, a phone call in the middle of the night informed him that Lady Diana had just had a car accident in the heart of Paris. The brutal death of the ex-wife of his son Charles, the mother of William and Henry, shakes the planet. What should the queen do? Elizabeth does not yet realize how much the disappearance of the princess will shake the monarchy…
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