EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: French TV etiquette experts berate Emmanuel Macron for his repeated pawing of King Charles
French TV etiquette experts have been berating President Macron for his repeated pawing of King Charles, with montages showing him being effusively tactile on at least five occasions. ‘Has he forgotten [Jacques] Chirac?’ fumed one, referring to the 2004 outrage when the French president touched the late Queen just once, adding: ‘One simply doesn’t touch British royalty!’ L’Express’s former editor Christophe Barbier reminded viewers: ‘But Edward VII didn’t mind being touched in his Paris brothels, did he?’
On their walkabout setting off from the Elysee Palace, Macron invited Charles sotto voce to hug a selected toddler in the crowd. Pointing at the child, Charles responded in French: ‘No, no… It’s not possible.’ Retaliation for Emmanuel’s le touchy-feely, perhaps?
French TV etiquette experts have been berating President Macron for his repeated pawing of King Charles
French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with King Charles III during their visit to the Museum of Natural History in Paris
Tomorrow’s Channel 5 documentary about Prince Edward’s disastrous 1987 It’s a Royal Knockout claims that the late Queen was enthusiastic about the project, thinking it would help the Royal family to connect with her subjects.
This was despite advice from her courtiers who, correctly predicted a tremendous loss of dignity.
Apart from the ruthless determination of Princess Anne, pictured in costume, to win, Edward’s plans came unstuck with torrential rain – turning the tournament set into a quagmire.
‘Su Pollard’s wellies filled with mud,’ states the documentary. ‘Cliff Richard was dressed as a turnip, Gary Lineker got his pants caught in a winch and Chris de Burgh lost his tights in a pond.’
Apart from the ruthless determination of Princess Anne, pictured in costume, to win, Edward’s plans came unstuck with torrential rain – turning the tournament set into a quagmire
While Sir Paul McCartney enjoys playing to packed stadiums and arenas, fellow surviving Beatle Sir Ringo Starr is less fortunate with his show in Ontario, California.
‘The upper decks were curtained off. The lower decks were half full,’ reports a reviewer. ‘An arena that can hold 11,000 had sold a mere 2,000 tickets. What could it have been like for even cheerful everyman Ringo Starr to look out over thousands of empty seats? It must have been a hard day’s night.’
Eric Idle’s Spamalot starts a six-month run in Paris next Thursday without him. The ex-Python has fallen foul of Brexit visa rules after using up his latest 90-in-180-day residence allowance at his French holiday home.
Producers have dispatched a ‘jokey video’ to the Elysee, asking President Macron to give Idle a special Euro-star dispensation so that he might travel to attend the premiere. Maybe he should have asked Emmanuel’s new best mate Charles to intervene.
Ex-Python Eric Idle has fallen foul of Brexit visa rules after using up his latest 90-in-180-day residence allowance at his French holiday home
Former Squeaker John Bercow famously described I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! as ‘utterly trashy’ when he insisted that he would never appear on it.
Now Bercow has signed up for the American version of The Traitors reality TV series. He will compete, alongside veterans of Big Brother and Love Island, for the chance to win $250,000. Isn’t life grand?
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