Duchess of Cornwall: Visit to Paris, France - May 27-28, 2013


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Looking forward to her visit.

Hopefully someone would come up with photos taken when Camilla was in Paris in 1963. She would have been just 15.
 
What type of visit is this? Is it official? Or some charity-related?
Ant details of her schedule?
 
The Clarence House press release Nico posted has a scheduele of the events Camilla will take part in.
 
What type of visit is this? Is it official? Or some charity-related?

From the press release:

"Her Royal Highness will be travelling to Paris primarily on behalf of her charity Emmaus UK, which has its roots in France, and of which she has been Patron since 2006."
 
@RE_DailyMail: Camilla is visiting the French capital on behalf of charity Emmaus UK, which helps homeless men and women http://t.co/czMDHlOgEL

@RE_DailyMail: Today I am on the Eurostar to Paris with the Duchess of Cornwall, undertaking her first solo foreign visit as a royal http://t.co/cMOih6WeoF

@RE_DailyMail: And the Duchess of Cornwall has arrived in Paris for the start of her first solo foreign visit on behalf of emmaus uk http://t.co/lXSYExPG9s
 
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@ClarenceHouse: The Duchess of Cornwall arrives in Paris & is greeted by Sir Peter Ricketts, HM's ambassador to France #HRHinParis http://t.co/5uBKeSjakx

@RE_DailyMail: Duchess of Cornwall says of having to give a speech in French on her first solo trip to Paris:'It has taken years off me, I can tell you!'
 
The Duchess of Cornwall has delivered her first solo international speech in French to members of the Emmaus community in Bougival, Paris:
Camilla asked her addressees to forgive her "rather rusty French", explaining it was 50 years since she studied in the French capital-
Camilla's first solo foreign trip - ITV News
 

Nico

Thank you for this. My french is more an a little rusty - could you tell us what the tome of the reports are - ie favourable, pleased, critical etc.

Many thanks
 
The tone is hugely favourable as Emmaus is very very popular here in France. The thing is that she apparently asked to come and visit the french branch, so people are pleasantly surprised. Camilla is not a well known figure here, or to be honest known for the wrong reasons so the French are discovering her through one of the most popular charity of the country, which is a good thing.
The press is eager to underline the fact that it's her first solo trip abroad and that she's gaining more confidence and becoming a key figure of the BRF.
There's no dangerous comparison, no insinuation and no cynism ... for the moment. You can expect some from the yellow press next week ...
 
The tone is hugely favourable as Emmaus is very very popular here in France. The thing is that she apparently asked to come and visit the french branch, so people are pleasantly surprised. Camilla is not a well known figure here, or to be honest known for the wrong reasons so the French are discovering her through one of the most popular charity of the country, which is a good thing.
The press is eager to underline the fact that it's her first solo trip abroad and that she's gaining more confidence and becoming a key figure of the BRF.
There's no dangerous comparison, no insinuation and no cynism ... for the moment. You can expect some from the yellow press next week ...

Thanks Nico - that is good news.
 
Kudos to the Duchess for delivering this speech in French. She could have chosen to deliver the majority of the speech in English with just a few sentences in French or she could have asked them to provide translation services, but she didn't. It isn't easy doing public speaking, let only doing public speaking in a language one uses less frequently (in her case one she hadn't used much for some 50 years). She did very well and it is inspiring to see someone tackle new challenges - and their fears.
 
She looked very good today and IMO it is wonderful to see her embarking on this type of overseas engagement.
 
I was shocked when I read it was Camilla's first official trip abroad by herself. She's been part of the family for 8 years. Maybe that's a normal time to do one on her own. Sophie has visited many places without Edward (Canada, Germany, Paris, Monaco and Bangladesh to name a few) and she did them as early as 2004. Obviously for Camilla the situation has never arisen where she has had to go on her own perhaps, but still it's a long time.

Her speech in French is lovely, good on her!
 
Camilla has a lovely voice. I hope she's called on more frequently to do solos.
 
As some members may know i work at the Louvre here in Paris so today was a big opportunity to see the Duchess "in real". Sadly i was not able to meet her because, well, i had plenty of work to do !The museum is closed on tuesday so she was welcomed by the president of the Louvre for a VIP tour and I had to escort another VIP tour at the same time. I was able to see her arrival thought, wearing her trusty trench and her see-through umbrella. It was funny to see some rare tourists quite shocked to see her here. A couple from UK was not even aware that she was in Paris. She was waving and smiling royal style despite the rain during the small walk from her car to the VIP entrance of the museum.
As i noted before the press is quite positive about the visit and people around me are quite surprised to discover such a friendly and elegant person ... they had still the ""Rottweiler" in mind !
 
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Thank you for all the updates. It appears to have been a successful, albeit brief tour. I'm sorry that you were not able to meet the Duchess. :flowers:
 
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