French President Emmanuel Macron is to head to London on June 18th to commemorate the 80th anniversary of former French leader Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French to resist the Nazi occupation during World War II, reports Radio France Internationale
The trip will be Macron's first visit abroad since he travelled to Naples for a French-Italian summit on February 27th, weeks before Europe's borders closed to help halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Macron will award the Legion of Honour to London, making it the seventh city to be decorated with France's highest order of merit, after Algiers, Belgrade, Brazzaville, Liege, Luxembourg and Volgograd.
The French president will be received by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, who will be the first members of the royal family to leave lockdown to hold a major event.
Charles contracted Covid-19 and was forced to self-isolate at his mother's sprawling Balmoral estate in northeast Scotland.