French President Emmanuel Macron has touched down at RAF Northolt for a three-day state visit to the UK. State visits are a strange mix of pageantry and politics. In the case of the French visit, it’s a mix of horses and horse-trading.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Britain on Tuesday (July 8), for the first state visit by a European leader since Brexit in a trip aimed at celebrating the return of closer political ties between the countries.

French President Emmanuel Macron began a three-day state visit to Britain on Tuesday which will see him address parliament and try to rekindle a purportedly warm relationship with King Charles III. Macron and his wife Brigitte were greeted off the presidential plane at an air base northwest of London by heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife Catherine,