But at least the owners reliably show the same dignity, class and discretion in managing the legacy of their club.
The essential Caroline Kennedy whom they portrayed is a hands-on mother of three children and the author of seven books who has spent much of her adult life managing first the legacy of her assassinated father and then the memories and estates of her mother and younger brother.
But while Cunard has managed to keep the legacy of transatlantic travel alive with its Queen Mary 2, the flagship of the United States Lines has been laid up in South Philadelphia since 1996.
The retooled sitcom manages to tarnish the legacy of enduring talents such as Lucille Ball as well as adding to the public discourse maligning teachers and the unions representing them.
Mr Blair managed simultaneously to denounce the legacy of the Tories, and to assure the electorate that he would preserve its most important features: low taxes, light regulation, privatisation.
Increased public awareness, the ability to showcase new and more sustainable ways of managing an urban setting, and the legacy of more environmentally friendly energy, transport systems, and other infrastructure should also not be underestimated.
Dr Haass and his co-chair Prof Meghan O'Sullivan hope the new structures they suggested for managing parades and dealing with the legacy of the Troubles will one day become a reality.
On this and a range of other issues, the NAO said the MoD "had limited options to manage a legacy of poor planning and performance on some past projects".
He and his co-director, Celia Larner, arts administrators who had long dreamed of finding a way to build the legacy of Schwitters, finally managed to get their hands on the barn when, in 2006, the grandson of Harry Pierce, the landscape gardener who owned it in the 1940s, offered to sell it to them.
