Martin Ivens Bloomberg

e world's leaders are gathered in Glasgow this weekend for COP26, but Queen Elizabeth II - most likely the dignitary they were keenest to glimpse - will not be there to greet them.

Soft power means a lot to a country like Britain, which will soon have to live off its wits outside the European Union, even as it discovers that favorable trade deals are as hard to find as Lewis Carroll's Snark. Might the answer lie in part with the country's longest-surviving "Firm," the Royal Family, as much as trade delegations and the U.K. pr...

e world's leaders are gathered in Glasgow this weekend for COP26, but Queen Elizabeth II - most likely the dignitary they were keenest to glimpse - will not be there to greet them.

Soft power means a lot to a country like Britain, which will soon have to live off its wits outside the European Union, even as it discovers that favorable trade deals are as hard to find as Lewis Carroll's Snark. Might the answer lie in part with the country's longest-surviving "Firm," the Royal Family, as much as trade delegations and the U.K. pr...