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Queen insists on using a sword to cut a cake at G7 event

Her efforts prompted laughter from the Duchesses of Cornwall and Cambridge, and the assembled crowds.

The Queen had been handed the sword for the task of cutting a large cake marking the Big Lunch at the Eden Project.