Charles III, high-risk visit

The scene should be one of the highlights of King Charles III’s state visit early next week: accompanied by Emmanuel Macron, the British sovereign will descend the Champs-Élysées on Monday morning surrounded by the Republican Guard. With one hundred and forty horses expected on the most beautiful avenue in the world. “The images will be quite simply sumptuous”, greedily anticipates a government adviser. When others are rubbing their hands thinking of the State dinner which will take place the same evening at Versailles, Galerie des Glaces, where the art of French hospitality will be honored in the presence of a hundred handpicked guests.