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

I'd trust the UK press to cover our veterans with the respect they deserve more than I would People Magazine.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain

'And make sure you're nice about William, 'kay? that's a nice newspaper you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it.'

"Looks very <meaningful pause> flammable, that does"

US schools do a very bad job of teaching history.

Some on here don't seem to have the first understanding of how it works!

Do you actually know that we have a free press in the UK, right?
If the BBC, C4, itv news, the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph etc etc....
all may report stories differently!
No such thing as the media!

And all have differing political stances.

I think the 'RF briefs/controls the media' is something that some people think as a way to comfort themselves. I mean, it can't be that some people don't like H&M, can it, because they're perfect. It must be that someone at the palace (always carefully not named) is briefing the media to give them positive stories about the Waleses and negative stories about the Sussexes that the media wouldn't run on their own (unless it's the media controlled by the evil evil Murdoch who just wants to control the world, of course).

A grown up version of a dummy to send them to sleep pacified and believing that everyone loves the Sussexes really.

It's actually tinfoil hat nonsense, isn't it @MrsDanversGlidesAgain ?
Some people seem to have zero critical thinking!

It's a version of what we saw during the pandemic, when you had people positing the most ridiculous theories about 'who's controlling the governments and telling them to do this? and the ludicrous notion that Klaus Schwab was going to proclaim himself something along the lines of king of the earth by 2022 (he missed a trick at HM's funeral; pretty much every world leader was in Westminster Abbey, and he could have staged the easiest coup in history).

Someone always has to be in the shadows controlling things. It can't be just that a lot of people don't like the Sussexes much and feel free to say so.

Oh my god! The govt have put a chip in the vaccines/we're ruled by the Illuminati/the British Royal Family control the "press" or "media" (sic)/ the earth is flat.
Bonkers.

I think some can't bear the fact that Harry and Meghan failed. The fans can't imagine it's H&M's fault, so it must be an evil conspiracy!

IsoldeWagner · Today 15:13
It's actually tinfoil hat nonsense, isn't it @MrsDanversGlidesAgain ?
Some people seem to have zero critical thinking!

Ah - the old playing chess with pigeons!

We've had a bit of that over the last few days on here.😁

I think they're between shifts at the moment, though.

If the Royal family really controlled the media The Guardian would be toast by now.

I do wonder what would have happened if Harry hadn't left just before lockdown. I think maybe they would have been able to launch the after dinner speaker plan and maybe found more success.

Mind you Oprah scuppered them, I don't think the rich and powerful are keen on people who air their dirty laundry in public.

Not just the Guardian, @MrsLeonFarrell. There have been plenty of negative stories in the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Independent and the Telegraph.

Yes that's true. I mentioned The Guardian because they hate the royals on principle!

They don't do evenings, do they? It's 1.30 in Cali so it's work or school.