Foreign heads of state who speak English at a native level

[Darth Hibernicus]

There are some groups (Irish and Afrikaners) where almost all members of the group have very good English skills even though it isn't their/our heritage language.

But what leaders from countries where English isn't commonly learned at a native level speak it at a native level?

Off the top of my head - and all of these people either had a native Anglophone parent or spent part of their childhood in an Anglophone country
Abdullah II of Jordan
Netanyahu, Meir, and Bennett of Israel
George Papandreou of Greece
Justin Trudeau of Canada (Quebecois)

 

[EnglishEdward]

Glad to see you are not including The Donald.

 

[amadeus]

The Bishop of Rome!

 

[Gori the Grey]

It's his speaking Latin with a Chicago accent that's the problem!

 

[amadeus]

It's his speaking Latin with a Chicago accent that's the problem!

That’s the fault of Ecclesiastical Latin, not being from Chicago. Liturgical Latin is just those shifty Eye-talians trying to shoehorn their language into our lives.

 

[Evie]

I'd argue against Trudeau being on the list. Native or near-native English proficiency is quite common even in younger (Gen X onward) Québécois who never went outside Québec ; Trudeau, who spent his formative year in the English-first bilingual city of Ottawa all the more so. Plus, it's well nigh impossible to be PM of Canada without very high English fluency anyway.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

Mohammed Bin Salman of Arabia, I thought, though it's been several years since I saw a video clip of him doing it.

 

[PhroX]

That’s the fault of Ecclesiastical Latin, not being from Chicago. Liturgical Latin is just those shifty Eye-talians trying to shoehorn their language into our lives.

Bah, Ecclesiastical Latin is real Latin, a living evolving language. Not the arbitrary snapshot of something long dead the classicists would have us focus on....