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French President Emmanuel Macron attends Queen’s funeral in London

Alongside leaders from across the world, France's president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, attended the Queen's State funeral on Monday.

French President Emmanuel Macron attends Queen's funeral in London
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and First Lady Brigitte Macron (L) pay their respects to the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, Lying in State inside Westminster Hall, at the Palace of Westminster in London on September 18, 2022. (Photo by JOHN SIBLEY / POOL / AFP)

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte paid their respects to Queen Elisabeth II in London, along with several other foreign leaders, such as American president Joe Biden and president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

The couple arrived on Sunday, September 18th, the eve of the funeral.

(Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

The image above shows the French presidential couple arriving at Westminster Abbey in London on September 19, 2022, for the State Funeral Service for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, the country’s longest-serving monarch. 

(Photo by Gareth Fuller / POOL / AFP)

In this photo, the Macrons can be seen entering Westminster Abbey, alongside other foreign leaders ahead of the state funeral on Monday morning. 

(Photo by Dominic Lipinski / POOL / AFP)

In the photo above, US President Joe Biden (R) can be seen taking his seat with wife Jill Biden. French President Emmanuel Macron sits among the crowd of dignitaries and leaders on the left, during the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday. 

The Twitter account “Royal Family Channel” posted a video of the two paying their respects to the late Queen as she lay-in-state on Sunday. 

(Photo by Heiko Junge / NTB / AFP / Norway OUT)

Prior to the services, Macron waved as he and Brigitte walked “incognito” along a bridge with the Palace of Westminster in the background in London on September 18, 2022, on the eve of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. 

Macron was criticised by some British media for sporting sunglasses and sneakers, as he and Brigitte walked past the queue of British waiting to see the royal coffin.

In France, many Internet users and political figures, including those on far-right, accused the French presidential couple of disrespecting the British by “going to Queen’s funeral in sneakers.”

The images were taken on Sunday, prior to the service.

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Macron quips about cuddly ‘wedding’ pics with Lula

French President Emmanuel Macron has joined social media users in their jokes that likened his cosy pictures with Brazilian President Lula to those from a wedding album.

Macron quips about cuddly 'wedding' pics with Lula

Images of the pair smiling and warmly embracing during Macron’s three-day visit to Brazil circulated online this week alongside light-hearted captions and montages suggesting a loving relationship between the leaders.

“Some have compared the pictures of my visit to Brazil to those of a wedding,” Macron wrote Thursday on X.

“I tell them it was one. France loves Brazil and Brazil loves France,” he said.

Macron retweeted a picture of himself and Lula smiling during the visit, overlaid on the background of a poster for the romantic 2016 film La La Land.

Lula responded to Macron’s tweet, which was also shared in Portuguese, with emojis of the Brazil and France flags alongside two small love hearts.

One picture shared on social media this week showed the leaders raising their arms underneath a large tree in the Brazilian jungle was edited to show them holding red balloons in the shape of a heart.

“They are going to marry in the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris,” joked one user on X, while others said pictures from the trip could make up a wedding album.

Macron’s trip to Brazil saw the two leaders announce a billion-dollar green investment plan for the Amazon.

Lula hailed the relationship between the two countries as one that created “a bridge between the global South and the developed world.”

Macron’s warm relations with Lula mark a departure from the frosty ties between the French leader and Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, who led the country from 2019 to 2022.

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