An arrival followed by hundreds of curious people, and which marks the launch of preparations for the visit of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Friday in Bordeaux. The Royal Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke, which the King will visit during his visit to Bordeaux, arrived in the Port of the Moon on Wednesday around 11:30 a.m. After passing the Chaban-Delmas bridge, she moored on the quays of Bordeaux, where she will remain until Sunday, with a departure scheduled for around 1 p.m.
A few cables away, the Place de la Bourse is being cleared. With its heritage dimension, it promises to be one of the highlights of the royal couple’s journey through Bordeaux, who will stop there in the middle of the afternoon. The British Tourist Office will take the opportunity to organize an event called Great there, but according to information from South West the event will only be open by invitation, and only 1,500 hand-picked people will be able to access it.
Opening of Place Pey-Berland at 11:30 a.m.
Even if the entire route will obviously be extremely secure and regulated to the minute, Mayor Pierre Hurmic assures that the people of Bordeaux “will have the opportunity to see the arrival of the royal couple”, from the Miroir d’eau for the sequence from the Place de la Bourse, and from the Place Pey-Berland for their arrival at the town hall, where Charles and Camilla must be received around 1:30 p.m.
“Place Pey-Berland will be open from 11:30 a.m.” while “the event at Place de la Bourse will begin at the beginning of the afternoon and last until the end of the afternoon. The public will have the opportunity to get together and enjoy the atmosphere on the Miroir d’eau throughout the afternoon,” writes Pierre Hurmic.
Protection perimeters
After the Place de la Bourse, it was agreed that Charles and Camilla separated. The King must visit the Floirac experimental forest, a site responsible for studying the resilience of the forest in the face of global warming, while the Queen will visit the premises of the association helping the poor, Le Pain de l ‘Friendship. The couple will meet at the end of the afternoon in the grounds of the Grand Cru Classé of Pessac-Léognan, Smith Haut-Lafitte, in the town of Martillac, south of Bordeaux.
The Gironde prefecture announced in a press release this Wednesday evening that given “the number of visitors expected, a security system will be put in place in several areas. Protection perimeters installed on Friday from 11 a.m. around Place Pey-Berland, the banks of the Garonne on the left bank and the Saint-Nicolas district in Bordeaux, around the Floirac observatory and in the town of Martillac. Pedestrian and bicycle traffic will be possible, but in a channeled manner. Certain barrierd areas will be subject to regulated access, with systematic public checks. »
In addition, traffic around the protection perimeters will be diverted, with several lanes being interrupted. Concerning public transport, the tram and bus route will be adapted between 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Departure from Bordeaux is scheduled around 5:45 p.m. from Mérignac airport. The trip to Bordeaux initially planned by train from Paris was ultimately replaced by the plane.