Liz Truss ripped up the royal rulebook when she met King Charles for the first time after he returned from Balmoral. On Friday, in her first audience with the King, the new Prime Minister was spotted to grip the Monarch's left arm tightly as they spoke.
In their meeting, she expressed her 'very, very sincere condolences' and the King confided that his mother's death had been 'the moment I've been dreading'. Now Royal biographer and historian Hugo Vickers has said that while the PM did break protocol by touching his arm, he expected that the King 'wouldn't have minded in the least'.
