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Liz Truss took over as British Prime Minister on Tuesday after being formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth at a castle in Scotland during a ceremony known as the «kissing of the hands» – though no hands were actually kissed and outgoing leader Boris Johnson threatened to upstage Truss in a valedictory speech in which he used an obscure classical allusion to hint at a possible comeback.
Truss, 47, became the third female prime minister in British history after Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990) and Theresa May (2016-2019) following the meeting at Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, where the queen usually spends her summers.
