With more intimate moments, such as when Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, laid a bouquet of flowers on the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II in the chapel at Windsor Castle where she was buried, the second day of the French president's state visit In the United Kingdom, it continues to be a display of gestures and words to reinforce Franco-British ties, elevated to a new dimension after the tensions caused by Brexit. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, welcomed Macron and his wife this afternoon in Downing Street with the utmost cordiality to highlight the strength of bilateral ties.