Sonia Gandhi travelled with two Prime Ministers— Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi — and her memoir Belonging is filled with anecdotes about her meeting world leaders.
At the dinner, Prince Edward greeted Gandhi and Singh, and then turned to the other ministers “And you lot – who are you? A stunned silence followed. During the 2010 Commonwealth Games, then PM Manmohan Singh held a dinner in honour of Prince Charles and Camilla, then the Duchess of Cornwall.
“The Monica Lewinsky scandal had subsided a little by then but old habits die hard; at the reception held by Prime Minister Vajpayee in his honour, I noticed him [Clinton] every now and then surreptitiously sizing up the more striking women present,” she writes. Pranab ji, drawing up to his full height of five foot three inches, said stiffly, “I am Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister of India, and these are my cabinet colleagues. “Ah yes of course,” said Prince Edward.
