The real US ambassador to London, Jane D. Hartley, invited the fake one from the hit Netflix drama The Diplomat to her Winfield House home in Regent’s Park last night. In the show, Keri Russell plays an ambassador trying to avert war in the Middle East, with Rufus Sewell as her husband.
Hartley says the show isn’t realistic, as “I wear my own clothes”, and doesn’t have them picked out. But ex-ambassador Matthew Barzun tells the New York Times that “informality” is right, but not the “people dropping dead”.
