dignitaries

The day began with the same cordial routine the White House reserves for visiting foreign dignitaries.

In times past visiting dignitaries would give emperors gifts and tributes.

Many of the assembled audience of global dignitaries listening to JD Vance's speech – his first international engagement since becoming US Vice President – sat increasingly stone-faced as he very bluntly set out the US perspective.

On Monday, the King will will join survivors and other dignitaries at a service at the site of the former concentration camp.

The ornate neoclassical site where dignitaries gathered and Trump took the oath of office on Monday was ironic.