Possible Clues:

• Get colder
• Harder to travel, in a way
• More wintry when one's cold? That is right
• I tucked into dessert, beginning to relish what's colder
• Here in France a monarch is comparatively aloof
• Not as warm
• Here on foreign trip, monarch is much less friendly
• Much less chummy
• Relatively distant
• Colder here in France, escorting the queen