PARIS: The airport in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais, which is located near the English Channel, will be named after UK Queen Elizabeth II, reported Sputnik.
“We have received the official consent of King Charles III to name the Touquet-Paris-Plage International Airport after Queen Elizabeth II. It remains to choose a date for the official ceremony,” the mayor of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Daniel Fasquelle, said on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.
The mayor added that the renaming of the airport pays tribute to the Queen and her uncle, King Edward VIII, “who loved France”.
The airport in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, which is one of the most fashionable resorts in northern France, was built in the 1930s to receive British tourists.
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 last year in Scotland, aged 96. Her reign, lasting 70 years and 214 days, was the longest of any British monarch. She was buried in Westminster Abbey on September 19. – BERNAMA-SPUTNIK
