Carla Bruni performed before Queen Elizabeth II probably the world’s most analysed curtsey
I am still on about Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, The French First Lady, the wife of the President of France here.
On 26th of March 2008, the French First Couple went on an official visit to Britain. When Carla walked over to the Queen, she performed what could very well be the world’s most over-analysed curtsey:

Image source: dailymail.co.uk
Amanda Platell of the Daily Mail (UK) wrote that:
Not since Anne Boleyn has a woman curtseyed so deeply, so demurely or so calculatedly before a British monarch. When Carla Bruni-Sarkozy swept in to London to meet the Queen yesterday on her very new husband’s presidential jet, she was part Grace Kelly, part Jackie Kennedy, part Princess Diana.
Anne Boleyn was apparently a woman who lived 500 years ago.
A video of the curtsey (starting 0:50):
Source
Daily Mail UK, 27 Mar 2008
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