They might be the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, but their wives are really the stars of the show...and they both know it.
During the pair's first in-person meeting on Thursday, President Biden joked that he and Prime Minister Boris Johnson "have something in common," which is that they "both married way above our station."
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