Kate Middleton and Prince William: the secrets of their visit to Paris

The Princely couple – without her children George and Charlotte – spent two days in the French capital on Friday and Saturday. On the program: a visit to the Élysée or the match France-Wales, at the Stade de France, as part of the Six Nations Tournament.

Fans of the royal family of Angeterre have something to celebrate. Prince William and his wife Kate come to spend two days in Paris on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 March. They will meet young French leaders and dine at the British Embassy. An official visit on the background of Brexit and which intervenes a few months of the twentieth anniversary of the disappearance of Princess Diana, died in a car accident in Paris.

William, second in succession to the British crown, and his wife, will meet on this occasion President François Hollande. The royal couple will also launch a Franco-British initiative, entitled “Neighbors”, aimed at strengthening relations between the two countries, as the British are preparing to trigger the process of their withdrawal from the European Union.

After an official dinner Friday at the residence of the British ambassador, they will go Saturday to Stade de France to attend the rugby match between France and Wales, closing the Six Nations Tournament. Prince William will officially represent the Welsh Rugby Union for the first time, of which he recently became the godfather in replacement of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

According to BFMTV, Kate and William will meet on Saturday at the Invalides, victims of the attacks of Paris and Nice, as well as rescuers intervening at the scene of the attacks.

Twenty years after Diana’s death in Paris

The visit does not foresee any official commemoration of the death of Lady Diana, who disappeared in Paris on August 31, 1997. But the memory of the princess will certainly plan on the trip of her eldest son in the French capital. Prince William was barely 15 years old, and his brother Harry 12, when their mother and companion Dodi Al-Fayed died in a car accident after a chase with paparazzi in the streets of Paris. The driver of the couple, the Frenchman Henri Paul, whose investigation had revealed a blood alcohol level three times the maximum allowed, had died on the coup.

At the approach of the twentieth anniversary of Diana’s death, her two sons announced at the beginning of the year their plan to erect a statue of their mother in the public gardens of Kensington Palace in London where the Princess of Wales Lived. “Twenty years have passed since the death of our mother, and the time has come for a permanent statue to recognize the positive influence it has had in the United Kingdom and in the world,” explained the two princes .

This visit to Paris also marks the will of the young princes and their father Charles, heir to the throne, to second more Queen Elizabeth II, who will celebrate his 91 years on April 21. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit Germany and Poland in July. William announced in January that he would abandon his work as a helicopter-ambulance pilot this summer to devote himself fully to his role as a prince. He, his wife Kate and their two children, George and Charlotte, will soon leave their home in Anmer Hall, in Norfolk, east of England, for their London residence in Kensington Palace. The British tabloids had criticized the little royal engagements assumed by the prince, in comparison with the energy still displayed by his grandmother.