Britain's top feline diplomat has come out of retirement for a new, 'purr-fect' job. Palmerston, former chief mouser at the foreign office, is now UK's chief four-legged representative in Bermuda.
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The news, posted Wednesday on Palmerston's official DiploMog account on X, comes more than four years after it was announced that he was retiring from public life to a "quieter and easier" life in the countryside.
On retirement, Palmerston was adopted by foreign office diplomat Andrew Murdoch, who has now been appointed governor of Bermuda. "Diplomacy and a purr-fect role have lured me out of retirement," the post said. "I've just started work as feline relations consultant (semi-retired) to the new Governor of Bermuda. I've been busy meeting very welcoming Bermudians." Palmerston, who is named after the longest-serving British foreign secretary, Lord Palmerston, arrived in govt in April 2016 as a rescue cat.
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