Arm in Arm with Ma'am, Michelle has a Royal Touch [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › April 02, 2009

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THE gesture was an unquestionably friendly and reciprocal one, a natural reaction from a woman with a warm and obviously tactile nature.

Yet when Michelle Obama put her arm briefly around the Queen's back at Buckingham Palace yesterday it provoked a minor furore over suggestions that she breached royal etiquette.

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Arm in Arm with Ma'am, Michelle has a Royal Touch [Edition 2]

Even just touching the Queen has provoked debate in the past. In 1992, Australian Prime Minis...

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