In the first speech of his state visit President Sarkozy has heaped warm praise on Britain. Praising Britain's courage, dynamism and strength he urged both countries to "overcome our long-standing rivalries and build together a future that will be stronger because we will be together".
His speech, delivered in French, was greeted with warm applause was almost all present and only slightly marred by heckling from HRH Prince Philip who demanded repeatedly that he "stop speaking in bloody frog gibber-jabber" and "remember bloody Agincourt, not so bloody close then were we eh?"
In keeping with the spirit of his fraternal and warm comments Britain has laid on a number of special events to welcome the President. All newspapers have been ordered as a mark of respect to plaster pictures of the First Lady's knockers across their pages as liberally as possible during the Presidential visit.
HM The Queen took the President on a tour of some of her favourite paintings from the Royal Collection which are housed at Windsor, including George Jones's 1822 masterpiece The Battle of Waterloo and Arthur William Devis's The Death of Nelson.
Somewhat disappointed by his welcome Sarkozy later authorised a ceremonial beating of England 1 goal to nil in Paris.
