Troops swapped locations in Paris and London on Monday to mark 120 years for the reason that Entente Cordiale was signed.
British troops from Quantity 7 Firm, the Coldstream Guards, took half in a altering of the guard ceremony on the Élysée Palace, whereas members of French Republican Guard did the identical at Buckingham Palace.
France is the primary non-Commonwealth nation to ever participate within the ceremony in London, whereas the UK has turn into the primary overseas state to have guarded the French presidential residence.
The Entente Cordiale, a sequence of 4 agreements, aimed to finish acrimony and enhance diplomatic hyperlinks between the UK and France, settling colonial disputes. It additionally paved the best way for diplomatic cooperation in opposition to Germany within the decade earlier than World Warfare One.
French president Emmanuel Macron attended the ceremony in Paris, whereas the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh represented King Charles in London, whereas he continues remedy for most cancers.
