As he gripped the hand of one Golders Green knife victim, the King lifted spirits left battered by rampant anti-Semitism, writes ROBERT HARDMAN

At 11am yesterday, Yona Maarek, 15, was checking her notes on the role of the monarch ahead of that afternoon’s GCSE exam in citizenship.

An hour later, she was running down the road from Tiferes High School for Girls to see the real thing step out of the state Bentley. ‘I’ve just been revising him!’ she exclaimed.

Beyond a tight cadre of police and local civic leaders, there had been no knowledge of a royal visit to Golders Green. 

It was only when police barriers started going up next to Grodz’s cafe and bakery shortly before midday that word started to spread about

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