Queen Elizabeth's funeral, which culminated in Monday's ceremony at Westminster Abbey, featured a gathering of leaders and crowned heads that British protocol officials will no doubt long remember.
As the building cannot accommodate more than 2,000 people, only heads of state and one or two guests per country were invited to attend.
In total, it was still necessary to place in the nave more than 500 dignitaries from all over the world, without hurting their feelings or causing any inopportune encounter.
The British press observed, not without malice, that the President of the United States was installed in the fourteenth row, in the same row as his Swiss and South Korean counterparts but behind Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
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