As a matter of priority following the liberation, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across to Paris carrying the new British Ambassador to France, Alfred ‘Duff’ Cooper.

[4] In November 1944, the embassy hosted a dinner for Winston Churchill who was in Paris for his first visit since liberation for the Armistice commemoration.

The dinner guests included Charles de Gaulle, their foreign ministers, and the US, Russian and Canadian ambassadors.

[4] The official residence of the British ambassador to France since 1814 has been the Hôtel de Charost, located at 39 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, just a few doors down from the Élysée Palace.

Napoleon's sister, Princess Borghese, joined her brother in exile to Elba, an Italian island located near the coasts of Tuscany.