In less than five minutes, Elizabeth Windsor did more to rally the country behind the government than Boris Johnson has managed in a month.
Since Coronavirus arrived in the UK, two different stories have jostled for prominence in the public mind.
On the one hand, there is the material: a story of incompetence in high office, of government failure and human suffering; the lack of rigorous testing or personal protective equipment, the fumbled shift from herd immunity to social isolation; a bailout which fails to support millions and a foreign policy which fails to secure international coordination.
