Queen Elizabeth may have shaken a stranger’s hand for the last time. Even if state occasions resume, and even if others become comfortable again with a palm-to-palm greeting, it will be a brave palace flunkey who advises a 94-year-old monarch with a 99-year-old consort to risk it.
You don’t have to be a royal to have felt this strange shift in the codes of human connectivity and sociability.
The last business dinner I attended before lockdown was arranged to discuss trust. Guests included entrepreneurs, philanthropists, financiers and a senior clergyman.
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