It is announced that if circumstances permit the King and
Queen will visit the French President in April. It will be remembered that M. Poineare visited England last June. We are sure that the reception of the King and Queen will be enthusiastic. The Entente is supported and honoured by practically all Frenchmen as a piece of obvious political wisdom, and the King will be saluted not only as the personal
guarantee of the close friendship between the two nations, but as being himself a truly representative Englishman in character. King Edward was enormously popular in Paris, and we expect that the King will become equally popular. We hope that the King and Queen may find it possible to undertake a series of foreign visits comparable with those of King Edward, which were an invaluable auxiliary to diplomacy. We think we are right in saying that an English Sovereign and Consort have not visited a foreign capital together since 1855, when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Napoleon III.
