Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.

Duchess, this is Mr. Podgers, my pet cheiromantist. Mr. Podgers, this is the Duchess of Paisley, and if you say she has a larger mountain of the moon than I have, I will never believe in you again.

Sandy Weill was the man who stitched Citigroup together in the 1990s and in the process helped bury the Glass-Steagall act, a Depression-era law separating retail and investment banking. Last month he performed a perfect pivot: he now wants regulators to undo his previous work.

Both parties met in front of the Castle, the torch-bearers numbering nearly one hundred.