Queen Camilla awkwardly shrugged off Brigitte Macron as the First Lady tried to hold her hand at the D-Day memorial.
The two women laid wreaths at the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer before taking a step back for a moment of reflection. Brigitte then reached out to the Queen, but Camilla didn't seem interested intaking her hand.
The First Lady gave Camilla's hand a light squeeze before quickly dropping it. The pair then stood side-by-side in front of the memorial as they paid their respects.
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Brigitte Macron wanted to hold hands with Queen Camilla (youtube/@Daily Mail)Holding hands and touching members of the Royal Family has always been an issue. While the Royal Family's website says there are no "obligatory codes of behaviour" when meeting a royal, there's an unwritten rule not to go further than a handshake.
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Younger members of the Royal Family including Prince William and Princess Kate are more relaxed about the etiquette and have been known to give out hugs to fans. However, older members of the Royal Family including King Charles and Queen Camilla are not tactile with members of the public.
Camilla fought back tears today as she listened to a D-Day veteran remember the horrors of war at the 80th anniversary of D-Day commemorations in Portsmouth. She looked visibly moved as Navy veteran Eric Bateman recalled his experience on Utah beach during the landings in the Second World War.
The royals commemorated D-Day (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)He described how he and his comrades bravely jumped from boats after crossing the English Channel to land on the beaches of northern France, which proved to be the turning point in the allies’ Second World War victory. He said: "So many men and women, including my dear friend Fred, joined up with me but unfortunately never made it."
Camilla joined King Charles and Prince William at the event, which was attended by leading UK politicians. Charles and William addressed the crowd and mingled with veterans, with the Prince of Wales seen chatting to 100-year-old Geoffrey Weaving.
The veteran asked William about the Princess of Wales, who didn't attend the commemorations as she continues her cancer recovery. William said: "Yes... she would have loved to have been here today."
He added: "I was reminding everybody, her grandmother served at Bletchley so she would have had quite a bit in common with a few of the other ladies here who served at Bletchley but never spoke about it until the very end." Kate's paternal grandmother Valerie Glassborow, later Middleton, worked at the Second World War codebreaking centre and in 2014, the princess visited it to see where her grandmother would have once worked.
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