Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

This is John Batcher, conversation with my friend and colleague Gregory Coppley about the visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla to France in 2023, capped with a dinner at the Lisei Palace $40,000

40,000 euros worth of wine and a lobster dish and lots of toast. Why? Gregory analyzes in terms of relations between France

and Britain which have been poor, very poor, for several hundred years and especially

poor since Brexit.

And Gregory measures the success of the dinner against the hard feelings that the governments

hold for each other, but not the other but not the king of France aka

President Macron is Gregory Coppley my Commonwealth colleague to explain the toast the wine the expense the

Elizei palace the cheers for the king in the assembly more of this tonight well it wasn't you know the 8.3 million euros

that's the problem is only a mere half a million of that but the reality is

that that was probably the best and most economical and dramatic diplomatic

breakthrough which France and Britain achieved in the past two decades.

The relations because of Brexit between France and the United Kingdom were diabolical and they were getting nowhere in rebuilding that trust.

That state visit which King Charles and Queen Camilla made last year to France was a love fest, not only a lobster fest, it was a love fest where the in the assembly national in Paris you had

politicians of all political stripes who normally were going in there in open-neck shirts and sneakers

were there in their dark suits and ties and they were yelling at the top of their

voice during King Charles addressed to the Assembly in French, they were yelling,

V. La Loire consistently.

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