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The royal couple is packing a lot into their three-day trip to France.
Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, when she was still a princess and pregnant with the current British monarch, had made multiple visits to French soil, whose leaders, including Charles de Gaulle, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and others, received her with open arms, for which with her continuous visits, they have strengthened the ties of friendship of their peoples.
Trip comes six months after riots in France forced state visit to be postponed
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"Banquet of the gardes du corps given in the Opéra de Versailles, 1 October 1789." Jean-Louis Prieur (1759–1795). Banquet offered by Napoleon III to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the Opera of Versailles, 25 August 1855.
The Palace of Versailles (/ v ɛər ˈ s aɪ, v ɜːr ˈ s aɪ / vair-SY, vur-SY; [1] French: château de Versailles [ʃɑto d(ə) vɛʁsɑj] ⓘ) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Paris, in the Yvelines Department of Île-de-France region in France.
The Menus-Plaisirs du Roi (French pronunciation: [məny pleziʁ dy ʁwa]) was, in the organisation of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime, the department of the Maison du Roi responsible for the "lesser pleasures of the King", which meant in practice that it was in charge of all the preparations for ceremonies, events and festivities, down to the last detail of design and order.
Together with the Château de Versailles and its outbuildings, it was listed as a historic monument in 1862 and by decree of 31 October 1906; [8] and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979. [9] It is now open to the public as part of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, within the Domaine de Marie-Antoinette.