There’s something charmingly imposter syndromey about Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland since 2016, as she tells me how she had to Google how to courtesy for the Queen of Denmark, how “of course” she sometimes searches her own name on Twitter, and still can’t believe Hillary Clinton has read her book.
Then again, most of us would probably pinch ourselves occasionally if we found ourselves the spouse of the leader of a country they weren’t born in and knew very little about growing up. After a childhood spent on a farm in rural Canada, the 46-year-old mother-of-four now finds herself entertaining world leaders from the Bidens to the Zelenskys, sipping tea with Nordic royals, and among the chosen VIPs invited to attend the state funeral of Her Majesty the Queen.
