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    Re: Ladies of North Wales brooch Archived Message

    Posted by Arthur on October 27, 2014, 5:09 am, in reply to "Re: Ladies of North Wales brooch"

    Not a NATO summit, Baxter, but a G7 summit (summit of the seven countries representing the biggest Western economies), on 7-8 May 1977.

    Here is another picture of this summit:



    And as a non-jewel side note, a funny picture of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, taken a few minutes before or after the picture above, spinning an unexpected pirouette in Buckingham Palace's Blue Drawing Room:



    According to the website linked below (on which I found the picture), the flamboyant and anti-conformistic Trudeau wanted to protest symbolically againt the Palace's protocol, which separated, among the summit's leaders, between the heads of State and the heads of Government:
    http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/trudeaus-pirouette/



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    : Many thanks Baxter. I appreciate the
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    : Beth
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    : That photograph is from the Prince of
    : Wales's Investiture; the date is incorrect
    : on Getty's site.
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    : The brooch as shown below was also worn to
    : the Buckingham Palace dinner held for NATO
    : leaders in May 1977.
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