From July 8 to 10, French President Emmanuel Macron will be on a state visit to the United Kingdom. The agenda includes discussions on Ukraine, cross-Channel migration, and civil nuclear energy cooperation. Above all, howerver, the visit will feature a great deal of ceremony and symbolic gestures, with the British monarchy never skimping on pomp to honor its guests.

The president and his spouse will begin their visit on Tuesday at Windsor Castle, where they will be welcomed by King Charles III, who has made this thousand-year-old site his main residence, and Queen Consort Camilla. Macron will then travel to London to visit Westminster Abbey, where 30 British kings and queens are buried.

Macron will deliver a speech to both Houses of Parliament, gathered in the Palace of Westminster. Afterward, he will lay wreaths at the foot of the statues of the two most honored statesmen in the two neighboring countries: Winston Churchill’s statue facing Big Ben, and Charles de Gaulle’s statue at Carlton Gardens, opposite the building that housed the French government-in-exile in 1940.

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