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Of all the places Boris Johnson could have picked – and he had the whole of Britain’s hospitality sector on bended knee before him – the PM has certainly made an unusual choice. Handed the rotating presidency of the G7 Summit of the world’s leading economies, he decided that the best place to hold their first summit after the longest hiatus since the Cold War should be here – in a glorified country pub at the end of a tiny cul-de-sac, wedged between a railway line and the beach where the Slater family from Essex are currently building sandcastles. Make no mistake, the event which is about to unfold here in Cornwall’s Carbis Bay, next door to the artistic fishing town of St Ives, is a proper summit. More than 6,000 police and thousands of troops are currently taking up residence in the fields hereabouts (they even have their own pop-up Tesco). ....
Boris Johnson’s grandmother – Granny Butter – as a young woman at Carbis Bay, above When Boris Johnson announced details of this summer’s G7 summit, he admitted his choice of venue was partly inspired by ‘pride in being probably the first half-Cornish Prime Minister’. Yet that, it seems, isn’t the full story. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Cornwall’s tiny resort of Carbis Bay (population: 4,000), where the economic gathering of world leaders is due to take place in June, has an association with the PM’s family stretching back generations. It was home for decades to his great-grandparents, Lloyd’s underwriter Stanley Williams and his Paris-born wife Marie Louise de Pfeffel, who lived at Trevose View, a detached granite house which stands just 380 yards from the summit’s Carbis Bay Hotel headquarters. ....