The British crown wields great influence internationally, which explains why foreign heads of state often get jumpy when they meet the Queen.
But the police seem a little more jumpy than unusual, cars are being towed by bomb disposal experts, office workers are regularly moved out of buildings by bomb scares, gathering in courtyards or the street to chat, smoke and wait.
Far more likely the organisers, some of whom are also responsible for Jaipur's festival, simply wanted to avoid any needless confrontations with the jumpy state government.
Regulators are jumpy about who runs banks: TPG has reportedly promised WaMu's supervisor that it will not use its holding to exercise control.
But as the nervous response to electoral uncertainty has shown, the markets are jumpy, and thus vulnerable to unexpected shocks.
Some investors are jumpy, too.
Although many of the Special Republican Guard and other security forces had been killed or had fled, non-Iraqi Arab fighters seasoned, determined jihadis were doing their job for them.Civilians were frightened; American troops, who killed three journalists on April 8th, were jumpy too, some of them firing first and asking questions later.
Only Europe can help in eastern Chad, they say: in such a jumpy part of the world, an American-led operation would be counterproductive.
Hong Kong's government and officials in Beijing have reason to feel jumpy.
Bank shares have sunk.In this section Chasing the dream How India got its funk A step too far Dash for cash The apprentices ReprintsOn August 14th jumpy officials tightened capital controls in an attempt to stop locals taking money out of the country (see article).
Mr Oudea rejects the idea of a systemic failure, arguing that the loss was a product of a particular time and place: a period of rapid growth in equity derivatives, which overstretched the bank's capacity to monitor itself, and a peripheral trading desk where people were less jumpy about the risk of fraud.Clients seem willing to give SocGen the benefit of the doubt.
