Updated 01:22 | Published at 01:17
The small tourist resort of Le Touquet on the English Channel wants to change the name of its airport. And now the French city has received royal approval – from Britain’s King Charles III.
Namely, the airport will add “Elizabeth II International Airport” to its current name Le Touquet Paris-Plage.
“This is a tribute to the great queen who felt strongly about France, and it is at the same time a recognition of ‘the most British of French resorts’,” Le Touquet’s mayor’s office wrote in a statement calling the name change historic.
The city has been a popular destination for holidaying Britons since the 1930s and an application for a name change was submitted just days after Queen Elizabeth’s death in September 2022.
It is still unclear when the name change can take place, and if any representative of the British royal house will then be present.