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President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden joined Queen Elizabeth II and fellow world leaders for dinner in southwest England on Friday after a day of G-7 summit meetings during which British Prime Minister Boris Johnson turned heads by musing about “a more feminine” future for the world.
The queen posed for a group photo with Biden and other Group of Seven world leaders outside the Eden Project, a massive English greenhouse that contains the world’s largest indoor rainforest.
The queen drew laughs as she chided them during the photo session: “Are you supposed to be looking as if you’re enjoying yourself ?”
The Bidens later chatted with the 95-year-old monarch at a reception as heir to the throne Prince Charles and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau clutched drinks nearby.
Senior royals — including Prince Charles’ eldest son, Prince
William, and William’s wife, Kate — joined the leaders for the reception and a dinner of roasted turbot, Cornish new potatoes and greens with wild garlic pesto.
The garden party — free of COVID-19 masks or social distancing — followed the opening forum of the G-7’s annual meeting, where Johnson set the tone with introductory remarks.
Johnson said the destruction produced by the pandemic created a “huge opportunity” for the world’s economically powerful democracies to build a “greener” and “more gender-neutral and perhaps a more feminine” society.
Johnson, appearing to align his agenda with Biden’s, said that the countries must “build back better,” borrowing the president’s campaign catchphrase.
Biden sat next to Johnson, a romantically rapacious Conservative Party leader known for his many affairs and marriages, who emerged as an unlikely champion of what some have called a comically “woke” agenda.
Residents of G-7 countries “want us to be sure that we’re beating the pandemic together and discussing how we’ll never have a repeat of what we’ve seen, but also that we’re building back better together,” Johnson said.
“And building back greener and building back fairer and building back more equal and in a more gender-neutral and perhaps a more feminine way. How about that, apart from everything else. So those are some of the objectives that we have before us.”
Most of the G-7 summit is unfolding behind closed doors. The US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan are members.