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Sunday, June 8, 2014

In which Barack Obama and the Queen of the Netherlands share a few photogenic laughs

The Washington Post, Team Fix, June 6, 2014

President Obama talks to Queen Maxima of the Netherlands during the 70th
 Commemoration D-Day Ceremony at Sword Beach, Ouistreham, June 6, 2014.
 World leaders and veterans gathered by the beaches of Normandy on Friday
 to mark the 70th anniversary of World War II's D-Day landings. REUTERS/
Alain Jocard/Pool)

President Obama attended the 70th commemoration of D-Day today in Ouistreham, France, where he apparently told a very good joke. He hung out with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands during part of the event, and they likely made all the other international leaders jealous with all the fun they had.

(Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

(Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Reuters/Alain Jocard/Pool

It wasn't the first time Obama shared laughs and photos with European leaders at an event thought to be somber.

President Obama (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a
 selfie picture with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (C) next to
 first lady Michelle Obama (R) during the memorial service of South African former
 president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium (Soccer City) in Johannesburg
on December 10, 2013. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images

At today's event in D-Day, however, many other leaders appeared to have fun too.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II toasts with French President Francois Hollande at
 a state dinner at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on June 6, 2014, following
 the international D-Day commemoration ceremonies in Normandy, marking the
 70th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy.  ERIC FEFERBERG
/AFP/Getty Images

Belgium's King Albert II abdicates in favour of his son
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to abdicate for son

European royalty's next generation

 European royalty from Luxembourg, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Belgium and Norway

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