People who have been in politics wonder what it was all for until they can show their grandchildren their photos with the Pope, or the Queen or the Daila Lama, or a vaguely remembered US President and imagine that the fame of the people they were photographed with could rub off them in the eyes of their sceptical descendants.
Edward Zammit Lewis has a lot to make up for so he got this done to save it for when he has grandkids.
No mask and no social distancing though. Tsk Tsk.