2023-09-20 11:51:38
On the occasion of the first visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla to France, Emmanuel Macron will chair a gala dinner in Versailles, this Wednesday, September 20.
A prestigious venue and guests. For the first day of the visit of King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla, Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron invited a host of distinguished guests to the Palace of Versailles, this Wednesday, September 20. On the menu for this gala dinner, lobster, poultry, a signature dessert Pierre Hermé and… 150 hand-picked guests. Among them, athletes, business leaders, French or British cultural figures and a few artists.
Also present will be the legendary British rocker Mick Jagger, the violinist Renaud Capuçon, as well as the singer and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, British through her mother, Jane Birkin, who died last July and French through her father, Serge Gainsbourg, whose house, transformed into a museum, opens this Wednesday precisely. “Today I said to myself: ‘It’s my father and my mother who are fighting. Do I go to the opening of my father’s museum or see the King of England?’ Today I chose the King of England!”, she explained this morning on France Inter, visibly delighted with the invitation to the royal and presidential couples’ dinner.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is invited this evening to the state dinner with Charles III at Versailles: “Today, I said to myself: it’s my father and my mother who are fighting. Do I go to his museum or see the King of England? I chose the King of England!” #le710Inter pic.twitter.com/wnkAsYbZRg
— France Inter (@franceinter) September 20, 2023
“I’m going tonight! I’m invited! I’m wearing a long dress and everything, I’m playing the game to the fullest,” she added. Among the other cultural figures present this evening at Versailles, the British actor Hugh Grantthe Franco-British actress Emma Mackey (Sex Education, Eiffel…), the actor Guillaume Gallienne, or the Welsh novelist Ken Follett.
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