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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has met leaders from every continent during her 70 years on the throne. As head of state, she welcomes them to the UK and meets them when touring around the world. From rulers, including UAE Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II, to presidents and prime ministers, she has been there to receive them. The queen has met leaders of the UK’s closest allies and some of its critics. Sometimes a world leader is honoured with a state dinner, often it is a handshake and a chat but, for the UK, she is a vital cog in its soft power diplomacy. The queen is the head of state of the UK and 14 other countries — Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu. Read More : https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/05/23/platinum-jubilee-when-queen-elizabeth-met...

 The Earl and Countess of Wessex exchanged gifts with the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia after they received a red carpet guard of honour on their arrival in the country. Sophie and Edward on Friday began their seven-day tour of the Caribbean where they are also scheduled to visit two other nations, Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, after the 11th hour postponement of the Grenada leg of their trip. The Platinum Jubilee tour was organised to mark the Queen's 70-year reign, and it comes shortly after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were criticised for some elements of their recent Caribbean tour, deemed to hark back to colonial days. Sophie and Edward presented Prime Minister Philip Pierre with a photograph of themselves and a Jubilee box as a "token of appreciation" when they met him at his residence on Friday evening. In return, Saint Lucia's PM gave the pair a painting of one of the island's turtles rolled up in a long black tube, and bef...