Duke and Duchess of Cambridge: Official Visit to Paris - March 17-18, 2017


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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will undertake an official visit to Paris on March 17th and 18th

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The Cambridges' Paris trip will include a reception for young French leaders, dinner at the Ambassador's and Wales vs France Six Nations

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Read further details of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's visit to Paris on our website

https://www.royal.uk/duke-and-duchess-cambridge-will-visit-paris
 
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William & Catherine: Paris trio, 17-18 March 2017

https://www.royal.uk/duke-and-duches...ll-visit-paris

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will undertake an official visit to Paris on March 17th and 18th. The Cambridges' Paris trip will include a reception for young French leaders, dinner at the Ambassador's and Wales vs France Six Nations
 
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This Paris trip causes quite the dilemna. As the trip is March 17th and 18th and March 17th being St. Patrick's Day, who is going to hand out the traditional shamrocks to the Irish Guard? Maybe Lupo can stand in for them and get some good one on one time with the Irish Guard's mascot Domhnall. :D
 
St Patrick's Day with the Irish Guards isn't equivalent to Remembrance Sunday. Someone else will pass out the Shamrocks. Even Charles has missed Remembrance Sunday in the U.K. multiple times in recent years because he was overseas on tours.
 
And he is mtg with another patronage, the WRFU
 
Ah, Paris in the spring! It makes me think of that great prowler of Parisian streets Pepe Le Pew, who once so wisely said "Quelle est? Ah, le belle femme skunk fatale."

Off topic, but I adore that skunk. https://youtu.be/OP7k4LXM1rE
 
St Patrick's Day with the Irish Guards isn't equivalent to Remembrance Sunday. Someone else will pass out the Shamrocks. Even Charles has missed Remembrance Sunday in the U.K. multiple times in recent years because he was overseas on tours.

Rememberance day us not the supreme event and nothing else matters :ermm:

When it comes to the Irish guards, st Patrick's is an important symbolic event. In the past anyone handed out shamrocks as they didn't have a royal colonel. It's not comparable to Charles missing rememberance day, where he is one of many royals and has no doe if if role.


The game us Saturday afternoon in Paris. William could easily have attended the shamrocks on Friday and been in Paris in plenty of time for the game Saturday.

Right or wrong, with all the bad press they have got for being dork shy/vacations/fun events, it sends the wrong message. To many public, he is skipping an important military ceremony, to jet off to francecto watch a game. One hopes someone in their scheduling and pr department gets on the ball by the time Charles is king, because things like this doesn't help.

Great he is going for his patronage though. And to see them out.
 
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They are doing more than watching a rugby match. They are being sent there by the Foreign Office for a reason. It isn't a vacation. The Irish Guards will still get the Shamrocks.
 
Visiting an important allied country at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office trumps handing out shamrocks any day of the week.

I'm not sure why some critics try and make this event sacrosanct. Why is the Irish Guards parade any more important than other royal events?

Anyone can hand out the shamrocks but only William and Catherine can be in Paris at the request of HM's government.
 
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Rememberance day us not the supreme event and nothing else matters :ermm:

When it comes to the Irish guards, st Patrick's is an important symbolic event. In the past anyone handed out shamrocks as they didn't have a royal colonel. It's not comparable to Charles missing rememberance day, where he is one of many royals and has no doe if if role.


The game us Saturday afternoon in Paris. William could easily have attended the shamrocks on Friday and been in Paris in plenty of time for the game Saturday.

Right or wrong, with all the bad press they have got for being dork shy/vacations/fun events, it sends the wrong message. To many public, he is skipping an important military ceremony, to jet off to francecto watch a game. One hopes someone in their scheduling and pr department gets on the ball by the time Charles is king, because things like this doesn't help.

Great he is going for his patronage though. And to see them out.


He is undertaking events in Paris on the Friday. The WRFU invited him to the game on the Saturday - the FO had to be advised of his travel and they requested that he undertake further engagements on the Friday.

As the Princess Royal said in an interview "You can't attend everything"
 
Visiting an important ally country at the request of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office trumps handing out shamrocks any day of the week.

I'm not sure why some critics try and make this event sacrosanct. Why is the Irish Guards parade any more important than other royal events?

Anyone can hand out the shamrocks but only William and Catherine can be in Paris at the request of HM's government.

Would like to add that the Irish Guards like any other military branch will understand that sometimes things will not go as previously expected because the order that you receive from your C.O. (HM's government) will have to take precedence over another engagement.
 
and you never know who may 'stand in' for Cambridge absence. Harry? or ...HM's calendar seems to be open that day - perhaps she will take a turn with the shamrocks and the dog.
 
and you never know who may 'stand in' for Cambridge absence. Harry? or ...HM's calendar seems to be open that day - perhaps she will take a turn with the shamrocks and the dog.

It might be Harry or Princess Anne.
 
Anne is presenting the Cheltenham Gold Cup at the horse races on the 17th and then watching rugby in Scotland the next day. So she is out.
 
It will probably be the guards commanding officer. Easy, peasy. Again there is no rule that says it must a royal.
 
Hmmmm so might be Harry...or perhaps one of the Wessexes?


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They'll probably just ask either the Duke of Abercorn or Sir Sebastian Roberts to do it. They were the colonels before William. That makes more sense than to ask a random member of the BRF that has no connection to their unit.
 
Considering that William is the first royal colonel and the monarch is the colonel in chief of all household regiments, there have been plenty of British royals that passed out shamrocks over the years with no direct connection to the Irish Guards.
 
Considering that William is the first royal colonel and the monarch is the colonel in chief of all household regiments, there have been plenty of British royals that passed out shamrocks over the years with no direct connection to the Irish Guards.

Maybe British royal, unless you know something about Grand Duke Jean that the rest of us don't know.
 
That's why I said British royals passing out Shamrocks without connections. I don't think they are going to fly Grand Duke Jean over for St Patrick's Day. So if a royal does it, it's going to be a British one and everyone except the Queen (ruling the Cambridges out of running) doesn't have a tie to the Irish Guards. Just like many previous Shamrock passing outers.
 
He is undertaking events in Paris on the Friday. The WRFU invited him to the game on the Saturday - the FO had to be advised of his travel and they requested that he undertake further engagements on the Friday.

As the Princess Royal said in an interview "You can't attend everything"
And the Princess Royal is absolutely correct!:) The Foreign Office had to coordinate the schedule with their French counterparts' calendar and these are the dates that they found mutually agreeable.
 
William and Kate are to attend the Six Nations Rugby match between Wales and France at the end of their short tour to Paris next week.

The royal couple are embarking on a two day visit across the English Channel as the government deploys them as diplomatic “soft power” at about the same time as Theresa May triggers the UK’s divorce from the EU.

Kensington Palace has issued more details of the Duke and Duchess’ trip.

The Cambridges also plan to meet those involved in the terrorist attacks at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris as well as the lorry attack in Nice on Bastille Day last year.

They will also be the guests of honour at a reception at the British Embassy called “les Voisins” (“cousins” in English) which celebrates the cultural ties between the UK and France.
Read more: Royals ramp up European trips starting with Six Nations game in Paris - ITV News
 
Where are all the posts celebrating the Cambridges handing out Shamrocks before they cross the Channel? :shamrock: :lol:
 
You'll have to wait for Friday March 17 when they hand them out to the Irish Guards. :)flowers:pretend that this is a shamrock.)
 
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