French left attacks ‘nauseating’ coronation but right gives praise

Dozens of British citizens watch the coronation at the British Standard Athletic club in the Meudon suburb in Paris. Photograph: Teresa Suárez/EPA

Almost 9 million people watched King Charles’s coronation live on TV in France, where the pomp and ceremony sickened the radical left while impressing the far right.

As the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who is close to Charles, attended the service at Westminster Abbey, congratulating the monarchy who he said were “friends to France”, the French media’s massive focus on the event – with souvenir front pages and lengthy TV specials across different channels – caused high emotions across the polarised political landscape.