Issue 50, 24th November 2018

Prince Charles came to visit the Royal College of Art, where I am now employed as an intaglio technician and instructor. It was the fourth time he shook my hand, and I feel obliged to report that he remains the most outstanding shaker of hands I have ever encountered: Precisely manoeuvred, firm and dry. None of that heart-sinking feeble limpness many an Englishman proffers. Could it be his German roots?

The future king and I

I brought dog biscuits for the sniffer dog, to no avail; the police had already scoured the building in a pre-dawn sweep.