Elizabeth II
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Three brooches for Donald Trump's visit, July 2018
During the president's stay the Queen wore the American State Visit Brooch, a 2011 gift from Barack and Michelle Obama; the Sapphire Jubilee Snowflake brooch, a gift from the people of Canada, a country Trump had derided; and the Queen Mother's Palm Leaf brooch. A series of tweets read the three as a silent rebuke, and the theory traveled worldwide.
It belongs here as the textbook case of interpretation running ahead of evidence. Convention requires the monarch to stay politically neutral, the reading rests entirely on observers, and it proves only how closely her brooches were watched.
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