brolly

"We had brollies and I wore my dress under a coat," she adds.

"Then I bought a brolly from Amazon which said it was waterproof and was lace and was really small and I just thought yeah that's the cherry on top."

And remember, back in March there was bromance under a shared brolly when Rishi Sunak headed to Paris, for what he described as an "entente renewed" and the President said was a "reunion".

As the downpour caused the umbrella crop to sprout, the wind caused pedestrians to tighten grips on their hats and hoods as well as those brollies.

Wandering onto the crunch of the courtyard gravel of the Elysee Palace in Paris, the president and the prime minister shared smiles and a brolly.