According to Royal Protocol, it is customary that when Queen Elizabeth II receives, everyone is should be present before she entered. It does not leave hanging around the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Yet that is what happened on November 27 in Valletta. On her second day agenda on the island, a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the summit's opening ceremony and the evening dinner in a palace in Attard for which Elizabeth had assumed a white evening dress, accompanied by a tote bag and shoes and was wearing her Vladimir Emerald tiara and the Cambridge diamond and emerald jewelry sets while H.R.H the Duchess of Cornwall wore a blue evening dress which she paired with Topaz jewels with the Greville Tiara.

But the lovely Queen had also agreed to meet in audience that afternoon at the presidential palace in Valletta San Anton to ten new Commonwealth Heads of Government for an intimate cocktail with canapés, sparkling Australian wine and orange juice and pomegranate.

At the same time , Prince Philip attended a religious service Friday at the Pro-Cathedral of Saint-Paul Valette. The Duchess of Cornwall Camilla also has a band time apart by visiting a primary school in Zejtun, as part of its literacy program "Read With Me". As for Prince Charles, he entered into a Business Forum, met with the finalists of an exhibition at the National Maritime Museum and has not failed to make a very british kissing hand unto Ségolène Royal, the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy he received in London a month earlier. The latter accompanied President Francois Hollande came to remind participants of the Commonwealth summit the need to reach an "ambitious agreement" for the planet in the coming days at the COP21.
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