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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Did President Emmanuel Macron Break Royal Protocol with King Charles at Windsor Castle?
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism for a possible breach of royal protocol While inspecting troops at Windsor Castle, President Macron walked a few steps ahead of King Charles, which is typically frowned upon A similar controversy arose in 2018, when President Donald Trump walked ahead of Queen ElizabethFrench President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism for what some say was a breach of royal protocol during his official state visit to the U.K. As part of his ceremonial welcome on July 8, President Macron and King Charles inspected the Grenadier Guards and Scots Guards at Windsor Castle, walking among the troops. However, some pointed out that Macron walked a few steps ahead of the King for much of their procession. "Shouldn't he know he is not supposed to walk in front of the King? Dude truly thinks he's Napoleon," wrote one user on X, while others accused the French president of having "no respect, no class." While it is true that royal protocol usually dictates that no one walk in front of the monarch, GB News royal correspondent Cameron Walker explained during their livestream that the rules were slightly different in this case. "[It] is perhaps custom that the King, as the host, gives way to the foreign head of state, which is the honored guest at Windsor Castle," he said. Walker also pointed out that a similar uproar happened in 2018, when Queen Elizabeth welcomed President Donald Trump for a state visit. During their inspection of the guard, Trump walked ahead of the Queen and blocked her as they rounded a corner. "President Trump was heavily criticized for walking in front of Her Majesty the Queen," he noted, adding, "There shouldn't really have been perhaps so much of a hoo-haa with what President Trump did." Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage? to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more! While his royal etiquette may not have been strictly against the rules, some have said the late Queen did find Trump distasteful. In his 2024 book A Voyage Around the Queen, biographer Craig Brown writes, "A few weeks after President Trump's visit, for instance, she confided in one lunch guest that she found him 'very rude:' she particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting." Macron's royal etiquette was also called into question at the start of the visit, after he and his wife, Brigitte, disembarked their flight at RAF Northolt on July 8. Prince William and Kate Middleton greeted them on the tarmac, and Macron met Kate with a kiss to her hand. While the gesture may have raised some eyebrows, it is not actually against royal protocol. The royal family's official website explains that there are no strict codes of conduct for meeting royals. "There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms. For men, this is a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual way," the website states. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Did President Emmanuel Macron Break Royal Protocol with King Charles at Windsor Castle?
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism for a possible breach of royal protocol While inspecting troops at Windsor Castle, President Macron walked a few steps ahead of King Charles, which is typically frowned upon A similar controversy arose in 2018, when President Donald Trump walked ahead of Queen ElizabethFrench President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism for what some say was a breach of royal protocol during his official state visit to the U.K. As part of his ceremonial welcome on July 8, President Macron and King Charles inspected the Grenadier Guards and Scots Guards at Windsor Castle, walking among the troops. However, some pointed out that Macron walked a few steps ahead of the King for much of their procession. "Shouldn't he know he is not supposed to walk in front of the King? Dude truly thinks he's Napoleon," wrote one user on X, while others accused the French president of having "no respect, no class." While it is true that royal protocol usually dictates that no one walk in front of the monarch, GB News royal correspondent Cameron Walker explained during their livestream that the rules were slightly different in this case. "[It] is perhaps custom that the King, as the host, gives way to the foreign head of state, which is the honored guest at Windsor Castle," he said. Walker also pointed out that a similar uproar happened in 2018, when Queen Elizabeth welcomed President Donald Trump for a state visit. During their inspection of the guard, Trump walked ahead of the Queen and blocked her as they rounded a corner. "President Trump was heavily criticized for walking in front of Her Majesty the Queen," he noted, adding, "There shouldn't really have been perhaps so much of a hoo-haa with what President Trump did." Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage? to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more! While his royal etiquette may not have been strictly against the rules, some have said the late Queen did find Trump distasteful. In his 2024 book A Voyage Around the Queen, biographer Craig Brown writes, "A few weeks after President Trump's visit, for instance, she confided in one lunch guest that she found him 'very rude:' she particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting." Macron's royal etiquette was also called into question at the start of the visit, after he and his wife, Brigitte, disembarked their flight at RAF Northolt on July 8. Prince William and Kate Middleton greeted them on the tarmac, and Macron met Kate with a kiss to her hand. While the gesture may have raised some eyebrows, it is not actually against royal protocol. The royal family's official website explains that there are no strict codes of conduct for meeting royals. "There are no obligatory codes of behaviour when meeting The Queen or a member of the Royal Family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms. For men, this is a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual way," the website states. Read the original article on People
Telegraph
05-04-2025
- General
- Telegraph
Sacred Mysteries: An interruption in the flight of time's arrow
Crowds used to wave handkerchiefs as the Queen went by. More recently they tried to catch her on their mobile phones. 'I miss seeing their eyes,' as Craig Brown quotes the late Queen saying in his masterly A Voyage Around the Queen. Both hanky-waving and mobile-craning are a sort of ritual, but I think the former is more like a liturgical act in the sense explored by Cosima Clara Gillhammer in her compelling new book Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy. 'Being physically present,' she says, 'is crucial to these ritual actions: a wedding ceremony conducted on Zoom, for example, just doesn't feel like it works, as many of us found out during the Covid-19 pandemic.' Dr Gillhammer, a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, brilliantly describes what people have been doing in church (or after childbirth or on their deathbeds) in the past 1,000 years and suggests why it is important. We implicitly rely on form in all we do, she writes, in a business meeting or playing a game. In the central act of Christianity, the ritual of the Eucharist, the words used are strictly prescribed, echoing those that the gospels report Christ speaking to his disciples at the Last Supper. ' Hoc est enim corpus meum,' was the form used in the Latin West. 'This is my body.' The congregation might not even hear the words, but 'in the midst of the deep silence, a bell rings as a sign that the words have been spoken'. Even more striking than the claim that bread becomes Christ really present, is the invitation then to eat his living body. No ritual among the Lele of Central Africa could be more of a challenge to everyday Western assumptions. But Dr Gillhammer's treatment of the Eucharist gives a particular insight into the liturgical understanding of time. She correctly outlines the cycle of the Church year and the daily cycle of the Liturgy of the Hours, in which Psalms are recited 'to lead the individual into ever-deeper meditation upon the same words'. To conclude from this that medieval or liturgical time is 'cyclical' would hardly be satisfactory. People knew that the world had a beginning, like their own lives, which would have an end too. The author recognises that in the public worship of the Church, time is also targeted, as it were, from the Creation to the Last Judgment. It doesn't roll round but flies like an arrow. So 'how can the death of a Jewish man around AD33 influence the lives of people in the 14th, the 16th or the 21st century?' When a prayer at Christmas speaks of 'the Saviour of the world born today' or, at the Easter Vigil the Exsultet says, 'This is the night when Christ broke the prison bars of death,' the liturgical act breaks into time's trajectory. This is notable in the Eucharist: 'What happens during the Mass is not a re-enactment of the Last Supper as if it were a play on a stage; to the contrary, it is an actualisation of past events.' To me, this helps make sense of how the death of Jesus on the Cross is an act once and for all, yet is made actual at every Eucharist, and then brought home to anyone who takes up the invitation to eat his body. George Mackay Brown, the Orcadian poet, narrates in his memorable novel Magnus the martyrdom of St Magnus on the island of Egilsay at Easter. The author makes the martyr's death a partaking in the death of Christ and in the Mass. What a novelist can convey in fiction, the liturgy can achieve for participants in a way beyond anything that can be asserted in logical formulae.
The Guardian
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown audiobook review
The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022 was watched by around 28 million people in the UK alone. In her lifetime, she was one of the most photographed and scrutinised figures in the world. Yet few could say they knew the late monarch since, says biographer Craig Brown, she kept 'her interior world screened from public view' and was 'a human looking-glass: the light cast by fame bounced off her, and back on to those she faced'. Little wonder, then, that A Voyage Around the Queen does not follow the usual conventions of a biography. Instead of a chronological account of its subject, it is a patchwork of news reports, letters, diary entries, secondhand anecdotes, tweets and even dreams. The result is a wide-ranging and thoroughly entertaining portrait not just of the woman but the psyche of her subjects. You don't have to be a royalist to enjoy such titbits as Kingsley Amis anxiously loading up on Imodium prior to meeting the queen lest he fart in her orbit, or the list of wedding gifts given to the royal couple in 1947 which includes bibles, tea cosies, bookends, paperweights, 500 cases of tinned pineapple from the state of Queensland and 148 pairs of nylon stockings 'from Americans sensitive to Britain's postwar shortage'. Actor Harriet Walter is the narrator, her reading threaded with irreverence but no trace of snark. She expertly gives voice to those who met or shared opinions on the queen, among them Richard Dimbleby, Winston Churchill, Salvador Dalí, Margaret Thatcher, and Paul McCartney who, in Her Majesty, sang that she was 'a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say'. Available via 4th Estate, 19hr 46min. The Coming Storm by Gabriel Gatehouse Penguin Audio, 9hr 35min Adapted from the podcast of the same name, the journalist and broadcaster's account of the conspiracy theories blighting American society. Raising Hare by Chloe DaltonCanongate, 6hr 29min Louise Brealey narrates this moving memoir of a life transformed by an encounter with a young hare.
