00:00They men are Rawlings and the president is just, we believe, exiting the aircraft now.
00:08There we go, the president Macron there and first lady Bridget Macron greeting the prince and princess of Wales
00:16on the tarmac of RAF Norfolk in West London, as well as meeting the ambassador of the French Republic
00:23and Sir Kenneth Elisa, His Majesty's Lord Lieutenant of Greater London.
00:32It's expected to be a relatively short ceremony here on the tarmac of RAF Norfolk
00:37before the prince and princess of Wales invite the president of France and the first lady to enter their motorcade
00:47and then they will all drive together in convoy here to Windsor, which shouldn't be too far away.
00:53I reckon around half an hour or so to get here to the centre of Windsor.
00:59And I must just say, as the president, you may be able to hear on my microphone here,
01:03as the president exited the plane, the band, one of the bands here, the military bands at my position in Windsor
01:10has struck up the opening number of Wicked, the musical, which is a slightly ironic piece of music to play
01:18as the president of France, steps of it on British soil for the start of his French state visits, but there you go.
01:25And of course, we have there on the left of your screens a carpet lining party founded by the King's Colour Squadron
01:30of the Royal Air Force on the airport apron.
01:33So it is pomp and pageantry and a very odd piece of music, I would suggest, Bevan Andrew,
01:38as the president arrives here in the United Kingdom.
01:42Well, the opening song in the Wicked is No One Mourns the Wicked.
01:45So what's that about?
01:47What do blonde tondres, what significance do we read into that?
01:50No One Mourns the Wicked, good news, she's dead.
01:52Yeah, very strange.
01:53No One Mourns the Wicked.
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