French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a landmark three-day state visit – the first by a European Union head of state since Britain’s departure from the bloc, and the first by a French president since Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008.
The visit, marked by regal pageantry and weighty diplomacy, represents a pivotal effort to rekindle Franco-British ties amid global unrest and domestic political pressure on both sides of the Channel.
