Parliament authorized the visit of the President of the Republic to London from 14 to 16 June.

This Friday Parliament unanimously approved the visit of the President of the Republic to London for an official visit from 14 to 16 June.

In a request for consent made to the Assembly of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza specified that the visit is part of the celebration of the 650th anniversary of the Tagilda and London treaties.

The treaty of alliance between Portugal and England, or the Treaty of Tagilda, was signed on July 10, 1372 in the Church of San Salvador de Tagilde (Vizela) between King D. Fernando and representatives of the Duke of Lencastre (son of Eduardo III of England).

This Treaty of Tagilda, named after the nearby city of Guimarães, was the first of a series of agreements between the two countries that were reinforced the following year by the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Alliance, signed in 1373 in London.

The Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the oldest among independent states, was renewed on other occasions, in particular, with the Treaty of Windsor (1386), which resulted in the marriage of King João I of Portugal to D. Philip de Lencastre.

The President of the Republic was recently in London to visit the heart of King Charles III on May 6, in what he considered the beginning of a “new historical cycle”.

“A new historical cycle is opening,” he stressed, recalling that he had already been in the British capital in September “at a very sad time” for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

In May, the head of state said that he used the coronation to hold bilateral and multilateral meetings with colleagues, such as Brazilian Lula da Silva and Angolan Joao Lourenço.