Six days after gatecrashing a European summit by posing as world leaders, Greenpeace activists have pulled off a similar stunt at a royal bash for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.
Clad in a tuxedo and a red silk ballgown, a man and woman pulled up in a chauffeured limousine at the Danish parliament where Queen Margrethe II was to host a summit banquet, the group said.
Their three-vehicle convoy was just in front of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade, it said.
TV footage seen by AFP saw the protesters unfurl yellow banners reading "Politicians Talk, Leaders Act" inside the porticoed entrance to the palace before they were hustled away by security guards.
Greenpeace also projected the message, "Don't betray our children's future" onto the building and the Danish prime minister's office, in English, French and German, the group said in a press release.
The banquet gathered scores of heads of state and government who had arrived before the close on Friday of the 12-day climate talks in the Danish capital.
It was the second time in less than a week that Greenpeace, well known for its eye-catching demos, had pulled off the tux-and-limo trick.
On December 11, protesters surprised arriving VIPs, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as they jumped out of vehicles in a Greenpeace motorcade before a top-level European Union meeting in Brussels.
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