Queen Elizabeth II Meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo : Getty Images)
On the last day of Queen Elizabeth's three-day state visit to Malta, she was toasted at a banquet by the 43-year-old handsome Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The longest reigning British monarch joked that the Apechottie just made her feel so old.
The Queen is 89 which means she was around 44 when Justin Trudeau was born. Since she just celebrated her diamond jubilee as monarch that meant that she was already reigning for a few decades when Trudeau started his life.
Not surprising since she had also met his father, Pierre, who once occupied the same political position for more than a decade beginning 1968, and throughout his rule, it was already Elizabeth who headed the Commonwealth of Britain which counts Canada as one of the 53 countries her reign, notes The Washington Post.
It could be the Queen's last attendance at the Commonwealth gather held every two years since she no longer travels long haul. The gathering, which for 2015 tackled climate change, violent extremism and corruption, is hosted by a different commonwealth nation.
British MP Patricia Scotland was noted the next secretary general of the Commonwealth Heads of Government. She was born in Dominica and served as attorney general during the rule of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
It was the second time in a decade that the island-nation of Malta hosted the Commonwealth meeting, the Queen notes as she stressed on Friday morning at the close of the meeting that "Malta is one of the Commonwealth's small states; a group that constitutes more than half of its membership," quotes The Independent.
Yet, despite the tiny geographical size of these nations, "These countries have an equal voice in the Commonwealth, and none more so than Malta," where she lived in 1949, the same year that the Commonwealth was established.
