Melinda accompanied her husband when he took the witness stand during an antitrust case against Microsoft in 2002Bill Gates and Melinda Gates attended the Global Champions Tour of Monaco in Monte-Carlo in 2017Bill and Melinda took part in a discussion in Brussels in 2015 organised by British magazine The Economist about expected breakthroughs in the next 15 years in health, education, farming and bankingQueen Elizabeth II presented Bill Gates with his honorary knighthood at Buckingham Palace in London, alongside his wife Melinda, in 2015Bill and Melinda met then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations in 2015Then-US President Barack Obama awarded the pair the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016The couple was awarded the Légion d’Honneur – France’s highest honour – by French President François Hollande in 2017 for their philanthropic effortsThe couple enjoying a moment during a tennis match between Hubert Hurkacz of Poland and Swiss player Roger Federer in 2019
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