Camilla snubs Brigitte Macron at D-Day Anniversary, rejecting her gesture of warmth

[TallerSally]

Well, isn't this a funny one.

Foreign heads of state are under no obligation to respect protocols of foreign royalty, particularly in their own country.

Seems Camilla didn't get the memo:

"Queen Camilla, 76, and Brigitte, 71, had an awkward moment on June 6 during a service marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy, France. As seen in a video shared to X by the Daily Mail, French President Emmanuel Macron's wife tried to hold the royal's hand after they laid wreaths at the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer. However, Queen Camilla didn't reciprocate, keeping her arm at her side. After briefly grasping the royal's hand, Brigitte stepped to the side and folded her arms in front of her.
Proper etiquette around interacting with the British royals has long been a highly discussed subject. The royal family's website, which has yet to be updated in full following the death of Queen Elizabeth in September 2022, states, "There are no obligatory codes of behavior when meeting The Queen or a member of the royal family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms."

Funnily enough, Charles himself didn't follow royal protocol:

"Proving that there are no hard and fast rules around how to say hello, King Charles, 75, greeted President Macron with a hug at the British Normandy Memorial and kissed his wife's hand."

I guess Camilla's more royal than the royals themselves?

https://people.com/queen-camilla-brigitte-macron-awkward-moment-royal-avoids-holding-hands-d-day-anniversary-event-france-8659266

She’s not THE queen she’s husband to the monarch

Wife of the monarch = queen (consort, not regnant). As exhaustively and exhaustingly hashed out on this very board in September 2022.

🙄

Talking or squeaking?

Hard to tell these days.

It's all part of the Cult of St Diana the Martyr.
She was wronged (over 30 years ago) !

Like the user name 😉

Diana actually had a good friendship with Bernadette Chirac, who gifted her with the Dior handbag that became a favorite. And after Diana died in a Paris hospital, Madame Chirac came and sat vigil with Diana’s body so she wasn’t left alone until Charles arrived with the Spencers.

Diana didn't want to be Queen consort. We know that, because she divorced her husband. She would not have been Queen even if she had lived.

What’s that got to do with Mme Macron? If Diana was still alive, Mme Chirac wouldn’t have sat with her body one hopes 😂

Indeed. Had Diana lived she would have been nowhere near Normandy, or Brigitte Macron.

And the relevance of that to the topic under discussion is precisely zero (unless BM is Mme Chirac in disguise.)

By all accounts this was a rather unfortunate miss understanding, B macron and Camilla have been quite friendly with each other and informal too in past occasions as many photos show.

She gifted her a Dior handbag?
Evidence enough that Diana would have been perfect, had she lived and not divorced Charles and become Queen and attended Normandy...

She’d have probably been in Montecito - battling M for attention.

Which means this would not have existed.

C’est la vie.

Wowsers Jeff! How cold and snobbish does Camilla look there? Oh, not at all 🙄

😂😂

Bit like Kate moving away when a black woman tried to touch her hand.

Indeed @IsoldeWagner , there are quite a few photos of the pair of them giggling together like school girls, they seem quite relaxed and comfortable together.

Definitely. Diana was friends with Mme Chirac 30 years ago so the only logical conclusion to be drawn from that is that Camilla should have held hands with Brigitte Macron.

Obvious when you put it like that.

For a teeny minute there I though Camilla had a tattoo. Rebel! I thought.

Looking closer, I could see it was actually a bracelet of star shapes just past her glove.

Question is, if she did ever have a tattoo, what would she choose?

PS. I wouldn't hold hands with someone from work at a formal event. Not sure what Mrs M's thought process was there. Tres awkward.

I was watching the compilation of Larry the Cat footage (the No. 10 Downing Street Cat) on BBC the other night - the amount of people like Gove, and the head of Mitsubishi who tried to cozy up to Larry as a photo op and got the brush off were legion.

Sort of similar. Obviously Larry doesn't go in for wearing big hats. And he's a cat.

Bringing an ill pow into this discussion to score points is unnecessary and rather embarrassing.

@TheFirmBiscuit did it ever occur to you that Camilla had snot/blood/dirt on her hand and was being polite?

But typical.

I would move away too if anyone tried to grab my hand.

Regardless if it was my colour or any other colour.

We aren’t all huggers and touchers.

Well it shows that graciousness in the Entente Cordiale can go a long way and something Charles has no problem with his second wife less so. This was the First Lady of France, taking one’s hand for a contemplative and prayerful moment of thanks for fallen DDay soldiers. Completely appropriate gesture, and it speaks volumes given how hard she avoided it.

It's in the same league of Sunak jetting off - it would have taken nothing to have held it briefly and shown common humanity as the eyes of the world watched this solemn moment. It's the job and on foreign soil to boot.

Or other things that never happened.