Barack Obama always looks like a small boy wearing somebody else's clothes in his DJ, while Colin Firth and, come to think of it, Prince Charles look exemplary in theirs.
Touching distance is not close enough though, as Khan's dreams of becoming Britain's youngest world champion since Prince Naseem Hamed look to be just that, a dream.
Eventually Tanvir broke through Kallis' defences to claim his fourth wicket but South Africa already look well set, despite Ashwell Prince (32) falling in the final session.
But it has been made to look unseemly twice in recent weeks: before Prince Andrew's troubles came Mr Cameron's own commercial tour of the Arab world just as the region's regimes were being shaken by protesters.
You don't talk about that bit in Botticelli's Primavera where the Medici prince reaches up for the orange or that bit in the Birth of Venus where her neck would look wrong if her shoulders weren't wrong too.