Continental chic

5. During his time as mayor of Neuilly-sur-seine, Nicolas Sarkozy displayed 50 shades of yellow in his home office in 1999. Of course, this was just before he became adept at international affairs, extramarital or other wise.

6. Captured in training for his favourite activity: pulling the strings of those on either side of him with strong-arm tactics, a Christ-like Vladimir Putin exercised in his home gym at his Bocharov Ruchei residence in 2015.

7. Understandably terrified, Silvio Berlusconi appeared to have packed away all his beloved ‘bunga bunga’ equipment (red velvet chair aside) and stripped the walls ahead of Syrian President Bashar al-assad’s visit to Villa Madama, near Rome, in 2002.