"I have met Queen Elizabeth a dozen times and for me this is a very touching moment. All my life I will be proud to have been one of the Queen's ambassadors": said Lord Edoardo Llewellyn, ambassador of the United Kingdom to Italy speaking at Villa Wolkonsky at the opening event of the 13th edition of the Diplomacy Festival.
The queen "loved Italy very much" the diplomat underlined.
Elizabeth was "the monarchy, freedom and modernity" observed Alessandro Gaudiano, deputy director general of the Directorate for Europe at the Farnesina, according to whom the "queen was truly the best ambassador of her country, also as a bearer of the sense of State with an eye to the permanent interests of his country.