A DESCENDANT of former French King Louis XVI has vowed to serve his country “if France wants the return of royalty” amid huge pressure on the government. Louis de Bourbon says he is ...

King Charles III and President Emmanuel Macron shook hands and stood together on the steps of the Elysee Palace before they bade each other farewell towards the end of the second day of the monarch’s ...

King Charles’s state visit to France has been postponed amid planned protests over the French government’s controversial pension reforms. Both France’s Élysée Palace and Buckingham Palace confirmed ...

The British monarch was supposed to make the trip in March, but widespread demonstrations over a change in the French retirement age scuttled the plan. By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London King ...

For President Emmanuel Macron, who has been the target of widespread fury and protests after he pushed through an increase in the retirement age, a planned royal visit was particularly ill-timed. By ...