Have you ever looked at some fictional character or someone you know and admired them for their blatantly-charming charisma? I bet you have. I do it often.

Introducing oneself to another is a vital skill that everybody needs to master. Even His Holiness The Pope is one of the few individuals who literally needs no introduction. Rather like The Queen. Despite needing no introduction, these individuals are masters of introduction etiquette.

Surely some things are just common sense, and others are more clearly a matter of etiquette and protocol? Go on to any etiquette school or social media page, and you'll see all sorts of grand palaces and tycoon-tech towers because etiquette categories are vast and rich.

Cary Grant, black and white, hat in hand from vacating a building because gentlemen do not wear hats indoors. This image is one of the most common that comes to mind when one thinks of etiquette and the 'old order'. But is that it? Is there no more use after that?

Etiquette is a term that has come to be so broad and narrow at the same time that although we know what we are referring to when we think of etiquette, we can play loose and fast with the term. So let’s define it properly.

Have you ever responded 'Good thanks!' when someone only said 'Hello' to you? Maybe you've had a slap-up first date only to have it spoilt by the awkward question William Shakespeare of Stratford should've phrased To Split or Not To Split?