Ed Llewellyn
@EdLlewellynFCDO
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British Ambassador to Italy and San Marino. Ex Amb to France, Chief of Staff, 10 Downing St, Bosnia, Hong Kong. Hon Capt RNR, affiliated HMS Prince of Wales
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And another stunning view of the Red Arrows and the 🇫🇷 Patrouille de France over Paris this morning - courtesy of one of my colleagues...🎥 🇬🇧🇫🇷
#18juin1940
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Today, Italy did something wonderful. They published a beautiful stamp in honour of our late Queen. The first time, with the exception of former Popes, that Italy has done so for a non-Italian. Thank you, Italy, from your British friends, for this very touching gesture 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇬🇧🇮🇹
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Alors que mon mandat en tant qu’Ambassadeur se termine ce soir, voici mon message aux Françaises et aux Français. Merci et au revoir! 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇬🇧🇫🇷
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The scene at Arromanches at 0725 this morning, the moment British Forces started landing on Gold Beach on D-Day, 77 years ago
#DDay77
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Wounded. Beautiful. Defiant. Notre Dame this morning
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Today, 101 year old WW2 veteran Harry Shindler OBE, who landed at Anzio in 1944, became the last person to sign our condolence book before The Queen’s funeral. Harry lives 3 hours from Rome, so, thanks to our Defence Attache Col Matt Smith, the book travelled to him.
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I love this statue of Churchill striding purposefully through Paris. When I pass it, as I often do, I pay a silent tribute to the great man - proud to represent the country he saved, in a country he loved; and reminded of his resolve in adversity
#letusgoforwardtogether
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Just arrived at Bayeux. Wonderful to see the 🇬🇧 flying from the Cathedral’s spire on a windy morning here, as it always does on 6 June. Bayeux was the first major French town to be liberated after D-Day (on the morning of 7 June 1944)
#DDay76
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80 years ago today, Rome was liberated, as Allied Forces entered the city. Today we at the 🇬🇧 Embassy paid tribute, standing on the exact spot where 80 yrs ago, young Italians welcomed British soldiers as they marched past our Embassy a few days later
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Lt Col Arnaud Beltrame, wounded after taking the place of a hostage in the attack yesterday at
#Tr
èbes, gave his life to save the lives of others. Truly a hero. Our thoughts this morning with his family and his comrades. And our solidarity with France
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The 🇬🇧 Red Arrows and the 🇫🇷 Patrouille de France flying over the British Embassy in Paris just now...later today they will fly over London too...
#Appel18juin
🇬🇧🇫🇷
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The Union flag is at half mast above the Residence in Paris, as well as 🇬🇧 High Commissions and Embassies across the world, to mark the passing of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan of Oman 🇬🇧 🇴🇲
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St Sulpice ringing its bells incessantly now in sorrow for Notre Dame and all that is lost
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It has been such an honour to serve for the last five years as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to France. As I leave the post this weekend, thank you and farewell...
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30 years today since the Berlin Wall came - here I am (a little younger) doing my small bit to knock it down...
#BerlinWall30
#mauerfall30
#Mauerfall
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Nearly a week after Her Late Majesty The Queen’s funeral, let me express my thanks to the Caribinieri for providing a fine honour guard at the 🇬🇧 Embassy Rome during the mourning period - and for their support, and that of the 🇮🇹 police, to the Embassy throughout. Grazie 🇬🇧🇮🇹
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Today we stand with France as the nation pays tribute this evening to Samuel Paty and all he stood for 🇫🇷🇬🇧
#hommageSamuelPaty
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Good to see this in front of Milan’s Duomo this evening 🇺🇦🇮🇹🇺🇦🇮🇹🇺🇦
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I have hurried past platform 8 at Victoria Station countless times, but I had never noticed this sign, until this morning...
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32 years ago today since the
#BerlinWall
fell and liberty rolled back oppression. Let’s never forget that day, what it meant and what it still means now. Here is a younger me, doing my modest bit to help a few days later…
#9November1989
#Mauerfall
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80 yrs ago tonight, Gen de Gaulle was spending his first night in exile in London - having escaped by 🇬🇧plane from Bordeaux with two suitcases and some francs to a country he had set foot in for the first time 10 days before and where he knew almost no one - except the PM...
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This is my well-thumbed copy of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. Today 🇬🇧 made clear, as the Foreign Secretary put it, that ‘We will not look the other way on Hong Kong and we will not duck our historic responsibilities to its people.’
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Daniel Cordier, secretary of the Resistance legend Jean Moulin, has died aged 100. I was so honoured to present him with an MBE on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen at his home in Cannes in July. Tonight 🇫🇷 honours Monsieur Cordier. So too does the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
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Merci, M le Président
Tout mon soutien à Boris Johnson, à sa famille et au peuple britannique dans ce moment difficile. Je lui souhaite de surmonter cette épreuve rapidement.
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Huge congratulations to Sir
@eltonofficial
on being award the 🇫🇷Legion d’Honneur by President
@EmmanuelMacron
for a lifetime of musical achievement- and for his tireless fight against AIDS through
@ejaf
and his unstinting championing of equal rights
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1/2 So sad about the death of Paddy Ashdown - my former boss and my friend. We his close team in Bosnia adored working for him and learned so much from him. A Royal Marine to the last, every day he would come up with a new plan to take the next metaphorical hill...
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Here - matching their performance in Paris this morning - are the 🇬🇧 Red Arrows and the 🇫🇷 Patrouille de France flying over Horse Guards Parade in London this evening, marking de Gaulle’s appeal over the BBC from London 80 years ago tonight
#18juin1940
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24 years ago tonight since the handover of Hong Kong. Nearly a quarter of a century later, the freedoms that the people of Hong Kong were promised in the Sino-British Joint Declaration would last until 2047 are being crushed by the National Security Law
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Yesterday, I met the ‘bambino del tram’. Now 92, as a 12 yr old Jewish boy, when the Nazis came to deport the Jews from the Rome ghetto on 16 October 1943, Emanuele Di Porto hid on a tram for 3 days, protected by the conductor and his colleagues, as the tram went round Rome…
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Honoured to be appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Italy 🇮🇹 and San Marino 🇸🇲 from later next month. Look forward to strengthening the close ties between our countries, to building on the excellent work of my predecessor
@JillMorrisFCDO
and to working with the
@UKinItaly
team
.
@EdLlewellynFCDO
has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Italian Republic🇮🇹 and Non-Resident Ambassador to San Marino🇸🇲, in succession to
@JillMorrisFCDO
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Today we celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here I am, a little younger, doing my bit to knock it down...
#BerlinerMauer
#9November1989
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Thank you to Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi for coming to sign the Condolence Book to Her Majesty The Queen at my Residence today 🇬🇧🇮🇹
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Leaving Paris to attend the ceremonies marking
#DDay76
- at the British cemetery at Bayeux and then the international one near Omaha beach. Will be thinking of all the veterans unable to make it across this year. 76 years ago, 🇬🇧 forces had been landing on the beaches for 1.5 hrs
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Ce fut un grand honneur de décorer ajd à Cannes, Daniel Cordier, 99, Compagnon de la Libération, avec le titre honoraire de Membre de l’Ordre de l’Empire britannique (MBE), de la part de Sa Majesté la Reine, pour tout ce qu’il a fait pour défendre la liberté du 🇬🇧 ainsi que la 🇫🇷
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On my way to the Somme this morning to mark the anniversary of start of the offensive on 1 July 1916. I feel a special responsibility this year, representing not just 🇬🇧 but also, I hope, the families unable to make the journey this year
#LestWeForget
#somme104
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OK, I confess that I have slightly exceeded my brief this w-e on a trip to the boulangerie, tasked to acquire 1 x baguette...🤷♂️ 🇫🇷
#confinement2
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The
@foreignoffice
illuminated tonight in 🇫🇷 honour of the 80th anniversary of de Gaulle’s
#appeldu18juin
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Thank you
@EmmanuelMacron
for signing our condolences book. Your solidarity is very touching.
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74 years ago today, Auschwitz was liberated. My wife’s great uncle, Jacques, was deported to Auschwitz from Łódź, Poland, in 1944. Unlike other members of his family, he survived. He has always told us how important it is to remember. We will.
#HolocaustMemorialDay2019
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Arrived in Rome today. In my first few hours, we hoisted the Ukrainian flag at the Embassy and I called on my Ukrainian colleague. Tonight our 🇬🇧 Embassy is illuminated in the colours of 🇺🇦
#WeStandWithUkraine
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Immediately on return from a trip overseas, Italian President Sergio Mattarella came to my Residence tonight to sign the Book of Condolence for The Queen. He spoke of his fond memories of his meetings with The Queen and of the Italian people’s sorrow at her death 🇬🇧🇮🇹.
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My farewell letter to British citizens living in France, as my term as Ambassador concludes tonight 🇬🇧🇫🇷
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C’est le moment du départ. Voici un retour en images sur mes 5 années en tant qu'Ambassadeur. Merci à la France 🇫🇷 pour votre accueil si chaleureux : je ne l’oublierai jamais
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The famous 🇫🇷 Resistance song ‘The Song of the Partisans’, regularly broadcast by the BBC during the War, echoes across Les Invalides yesterday, in a final farewell to Resistance hero Daniel Cordier - as the last surviving Compagnon de la Libération, Hubert Germain, looks on 🇫🇷🇬🇧
Hommage à Daniel Cordier: "Le Chant des partisans" résonne dans la Cour des Invalides
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Just sent to me by a friend in Naples after Napoli won the Serie A championship for the first time in 33 years. Congratulations, Napoli! I think it is fair to say that the celebrations have started…
#napolicampioneditalia
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On board the
@RoyalNavy
’s amphibious assault ship,
@hms_albion
as her Hon Captain, seeing the ship and the
@RoyalMarines
operating in challenging conditions alongside NATO allies in exercise
#JointViking23
off Norway
#WeAreNato
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Daniel Cordier MBE, héros de la Resistance, nous a quitté. Le Royaume-Uni lui rend hommage, aux côtés de la France. Ce fut un honneur pour moi de lui remettre le titre 🇬🇧 du MBE, de la part de Sa Majesté la Reine, en juillet dernier. Il a lutté pour la liberté de nous tous 🇫🇷🇬🇧
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After dropping his belongings at a flat near Hyde Park, he went to see Churchill at 10 Downing Street and asked to broadcast over the BBC - to urge the 🇫🇷 people to resist. His speech was broadcast at 10pm on 18 June - and has gone down in history. Tomorrow, we will mark it...
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1/2 21 years ago today the handover of Hong Kong took place. I worked for Chris Patten throughout his 5 years as Britain’s last Governor. Here is the last telegram sent from Government House to London - later kindly signed for me by Lady Thatcher and others.
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Early trip to Calais this morning to visit 🇬🇧 Border Force colleagues at Eurotunnel and see the situation on the ground - things running smoothly. Thank you to them and their 🇫🇷 counterparts, as well as
@Eurotunnel
, for all the hard work that has gone into preparation for today
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A vital fact-finding mission for any Ambassador…to the Ferrero Rocher chocolate factory and Ferrero HQ in Piedmont, Northern Italy. A chocolate aroma wafts over the town of Alba, their base since 1946. Great to hear about their significant presence in 🇬🇧…
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30 years today since Germany was reunited! I will never forget those days after the Wall came down, or observing the last GDR elections in Mar 1990. Today we celebrate with our 🇩🇪 friends and remember how Allied resolve helped liberty to triumph.
#TagderDeutschenEinheit
🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇸
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Thinking of my grandfather, Leslie Chapman, this
#VEDay75
: a schoolmaster in Cairo before the war, he carried out numerous missions behind enemy lines in the Western Desert - dropped off and picked up by the heroes of the Long Range Desert Group
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Productive discussion in Calais today between the Home Secretary
@pritipatel
and the new 🇫🇷 Interior Minister
@GDarmanin
on action to stop the dangerous small boats crossings in the Channel - including a new 🇫🇷🇬🇧Joint Intelligence Cell to combat the people smugglers
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25 years after the genocide at
#Srebrenica
. When I worked for Paddy Ashdown in Bosnia, we made many visits there as he fought for justice for the victims and closure for their families. Today, that fight goes on. Justice has a long reach and a long memory
#NeverForget
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Farewell,
@HMSQNLZ
, and thank you for an unforgettable visit alongside the 🇫🇷 carrier Charles de Gaulle. Go well
#CSG21
!
#fairwindsandfollowingseas
#GlobalBritain
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80 yrs ago tonight, Churchill dined near Orleans with 🇫🇷 PM Reynaud, after discussing the dire military situation. On his right sat a General de Gaulle. Exactly a week later, de Gaulle was in London, broadcasting via the BBC his famous ‘Appel’ urging the 🇫🇷 people to resist...
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Daniel Cordier, MBE. What a privilege to present Monsieur Cordier, who parachuted into 🇫🇷in 1942 and became the closest aide to Resistance leader Jean Moulin, with an honorary MBE on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen, at his home in Cannes today. M. Cordier turns 100 on 10 August
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A week ago this morning: British landing craft from the amphibious assault ship
@hms_albion
arriving at Anzio to pay tribute to their forebears. The first time, we believe, that British landing craft have returned to Anzio since 1944
#OpAchillean
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To British citizens and UK licence holders living in Italy: here is a letter from me explaining the details of the agreement between the UK 🇬🇧 and Italy 🇮🇹 on the exchange of driving licences, which I signed this morning at the Italian Foreign Ministry. Here are the next steps:
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In Dunkirk today, on perhaps my last visit as Ambassador, I took a moment to visit the East Mole, from which so many troops were evacuated in those crucial days 81 years ago, to pause and reflect
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Last night I left the Embassy briefly for the first time in over a week to pick up some much-needed groceries. The streets were utterly empty. But Paris was beautiful, defiant, uplifting
#coronavirus
#SocialDistancing
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A year ago
@EmmanuelMacron
walked from the Elysée Palace to the British Embassy to express his solidarity following the Manchester attack. Today we remember the victims and their families, and the strong support from France
#UnitedWeStand
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Important new agreement tonight by 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷 to tackle small boat crossings in the Channel, signed earlier this evening by Home Secretary
@pritipatel
and her 🇫🇷 counterpart Interior Minister
@GDarmanin
Signing a new 🇬🇧🇫🇷 agreement to tackle small boat crossings.
It will:
🔹 Double number of police on beaches in France
🔹 Increase surveillance with cutting-edge tech
🔹 Introduce greater security at ports
🔹 Ensure accommodation for migrants in France
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30 yrs ago, the two sides of the Tunnel connected. As PM, Mrs Thatcher finally decided to back the project at a late night meeting over a whisky at the British Embassy in Paris - having initially been against, she described it as the most exciting project of the century 🇬🇧🤝🇫🇷
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In my time as Ambassador, we have welcomed 55,531 visitors to the Residence...
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My friend and colleague
@Anna_M_Anders
, Poland’s Ambassador to Italy, is the daughter of the legendary Polish commander at Monte Cassino, General Anders. Today, on the 80th anniversary, she laid a wreath on her father’s grave and spoke beautifully of the cause he fought for 🇬🇧🇵🇱
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Images tragiques ce soir au cœur de Paris avec la Cathédrale Notre Dame ravagée par les flammes. Toutes nos pensées avec les sapeurs-pompiers héroïques
Un incendie majeur en cours à la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, d'importants dégâts
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80 years ago today, Allied forces captured Monte Cassino after a bloody struggle lasting months. This picture shows British and Polish troops (3rd Carpathian Rifle Division ) raising the 🇬🇧 flag and the 🇵🇱 flag in the ruins of the Monte Cassino Abbey on 18 May 1944
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30 years on, I have little piece of the Wall at home. Today, I will be thinking of my German friends, and send them my very best wishes on the anniversary of that momentous day for their country, for liberty, for our world
#BerlinWall30
#mauerfall30
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That’s it! C’est tout! Thank you to the wonderful team at
@UKinFrance
. Welcome to one of the best jobs in the world
@MennaRawlings
. My very best wishes to you and
@TheoRycroft
as you take the helm. Bonne chance! 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇬🇧🇫🇷
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2/2 Paddy used to tell us that he would ‘forgive the sins of commission - but not of omission’. I so admired his energy, his passion, his determination to make a difference. A true patriot and a true leader, we will miss him very much. My love to Jane and his family
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Just landed in Sicily for the 80th anniversary of Operation Husky, the 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦 landings in July 1943. As we came in to land, I had a clear view of Catania
@CWGC
War Cemetery. We will remember these heroes, and many others who gave their lives for our freedom, over the coming days
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Heartbreaking images from Notre Dame Cathedral this evening. All our thoughts with the heroic firefighters as they battle this terrible blaze
Un incendie majeur en cours à la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, d'importants dégâts
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Sono arrivato a Roma oggi, pronto a cominciare il mio incarico. La cooperazione tra i nostri paesi ancora più importante in questi giorni…🇬🇧🇮🇹🇬🇧🇮🇹
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Buon Natale! Happy Christmas! From all of us at the British Embassy in Rome. Dall’Ambasciata britannica 🇬🇧 a Roma. Buone feste a tutti! 🎄🇬🇧🎅🇮🇹✨
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Arriving at Pompei station today with Italian Prime Minister
@GiorgiaMeloni
on the inaugural high speed train service connecting Rome and Pompei direct.
#FrecciaRossa
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Tea ... the story continues
@KarenPierceUK
. Nous partageons notre savoir faire sur le thé 🇬🇧 avec nos amis 🇫🇷
👇
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25 years ago tonight I left Hong Kong on board Britannia, with the last Governor, Chris Patten. The promises made by China that night - to uphold the Joint Declaration - have been broken and Hong Kong’s freedoms crushed. Like many others, I am thinking of Hong Kong tonight
Today is 25 years since the handover of Hong Kong to China.
Beijing has abandoned its legally binding commitment to uphold Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms. The UK will continue to hold China to account for its actions.
Read my statement 👇
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#Dunkirk80
With my Naval Attaché at the beach in Dunkirk this morning. 80 years ago - almost at that moment - the Naval Liaison officer was reporting dive bombing and bombardment, and now the presence of RAF fighters overhead
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An honour to host the remarkable Paola Del Din, 100 years old this year and a former 🇮🇹 SOE agent in WW2, for lunch in the run-up to Christmas
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This morning I went the Elysée Palace to deliver messages to President Macron from Her Majesty The Queen and The Prince of Wales following last night’s terrible fire at Notre Dame Cathedral
@RoyalFamily
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Welcome home from London, President Mattarella, this evening. Thank you for attending Her late Majesty’s The Queen’s funeral today - and for the respect, admiration and love shown by so many Italians over the last 10 days for The Queen 🇬🇧🇮🇹
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76th anniversary of
#VEDay
today. The main official ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe is not taking place today in
#Paris
for Covid reasons, so I laid a wreath this morning at Churchill’s statue not far from the Embassy
#LestWeForget
#veday2021
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An honour to pay tribute, on behalf of 🇬🇧, at the funeral of Edgard Tupët-Thomé, 100, Companion of the Liberation. His 🇫🇷 unit fought to protect British troops during the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was taken prisoner, escaped and eventually reached the UK in 1941...
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At the moving ceremony today at the Polish Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Monte Cassino and the Allied victory, paving the way for the liberation of Rome
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