 British Ambassador to France L'Ambassadeur britannique en France | |
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| Style | Her Excellency |
| Reports to | Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs |
| Residence | Hôtel de Charost |
| Seat | Paris, France |
| Appointer | The Crown on advice of the Prime Minister |
| Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Inaugural holder | The Marquess Cornwallis (first ambassador of the United Kingdom to France, 1801) |
| Website | British Embassy - Paris |
The British Ambassador to France is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in France, and is the head of Britain's diplomatic mission in Paris. The official title is His Majesty's Ambassador to France.
Traditionally, the Embassy to France has been the most prestigious posting in the British foreign service, although in past centuries, diplomatic representation was lacking due to wars between the two countries and the Nazi occupation.
For the period before the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801, see List of ambassadors of the Kingdom of England to France (up to 1707) and List of ambassadors of Great Britain to France (from 1707 to 1800).
The Paris embassy also covers remotely the French overseas territories (including French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Réunion, French Polynesia, Mayotte, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, Saint-Barthélemy) and Monaco.
Besides the embassy, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office maintains consulates in Bordeaux and Marseille in southern France.[2]
- ^ "British Embassy Paris". gov.uk. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ^ "UK and France". gov.uk.