Museum · Calais

Channel Tunnel Opening: End of Empire

The Channel Tunnel officially opened on May 6, 1994, when French President François Mitterrand and Queen Elizabeth II presided over the ceremony connecting France and England across the English Channel after centuries of separation.

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CulturalChannel Tunnel Opening: End of EmpireMay 6, 1994: Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand rode through the tunnel in her Rolls Royce. The first connection between Britain and Europe since the Ice Age. King Charles III regards it as "marking the end of the British Empire."