Smiling G-7 Leaders Gather for ‘Wedding’ Diplomacy by the Sea
- Macron throws arms around Biden, Merkel tells Johnson to lead
- G-7 leaders pose for summit ‘family photo’ on Cornwall beach
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As Group of Seven leaders and their partners met on a drizzly English beach for their traditional “family photo,” they were reminded of another kind of formal -- and potentially awkward -- gathering of friends and relations.
“I feel like we are at a wedding,” Jill Biden, the wife of U.S. president Joe Biden, joked as leaders greeted each other with elbow bumps and quips. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson -- who married his third wife Carrie two weeks ago -- agreed, saying the leaders’ procession resembled “walking down the aisle.”