Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase, politicians have extolled the “special relationship” between the United States and Britain.

(CNN) You'll remember the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American revolutionaries famously trolled the British by throwing chests of tea into Boston Harbor. Undeterred, Michelle followed up with a guide to "British tea," involving less physical intimacy between teabag and water than between the stiff-lipped couple in "Brief Encounter." So Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States in Washington, called in the military. There was even a nod to how to conduct high tea at high altitude. Nor have there been comments on TikTok tea from Liu Xiaoming, China's Ambassador to the UK, or Josephat Karanja and Gaitri I. Kumar, respectively Kenya and India's High Commissioners to the UK.