The Queen hosted some of the world’s most powerful leaders for dinner at the G7 summit, and as usual, showed them how a photo op is done.
It’s a return to the in-person diplomacy of the Before Times, when the Covid-19 pandemic didn’t exist, borders were open, and presidents and prime ministers had no excuse to get them out of the tedious shmoozefests on their calendars.There will be a time and place to discuss the substance of the G7, and I look forward to my inevitably fruitless attempts to come up with a headline interesting enough for you to click on that story.You know how these summits work.
“Are you supposed to be looking as if you’re enjoying yourself?” she quipped while posing for a group shot. But you didn’t come here to read quotes. You came here to look at photos of politicians looking foolish, and perhaps judge their fashion sense. Harshly.
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