Tea with the Queen

President Biden ended his weekend with the ticket every leader wants – tea at Windsor Castle with the world’s most famous head of state. By the time Mr Biden was first elected senator in the early 1970s, Her Majesty had already been on the throne for two decades. You would never know it from her remarkable stamina. Besides tea in Windsor, there was cake in Cornwall, mischievously cut by Her Majesty with a ceremonial sword to the delight of some and the obvious trepidation of others, and even time for a drink with delegates. It was there that she best demonstrated her supreme skill as an ambassador. Not everybody can make polite small talk with Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen.