Fielding is a marvellously old-school English gent; the Princess a gracious European grandee - Siân Phillips has lots of fun laying the accent on thick.
And since you're allowed to do things on honeymoon that otherwise would be altogether too naff, the marvellously atmospheric old bar at the Hermitage offers the perfect cocktail for newly-weds: the Tequila Mockingbird.
We see many examples of wonderful, dedicated nursing staff who look after older patients marvellously, but clearly there are strains within our system.
Look at the marvellous – and marvellously bizarre – early photography of nudes by Madame Yevonde, for example.
It's a testament to Papp's gumption, his urban spirit, his flair (as he showed with Shakespeare) for turning something beautiful and old into something marvellously new.
The plot's trigger is the notion that one old codger – a marvellously shifty, shuffling Timothy West – has cast his vote twice.
On the whole, Charles, Jr., had a marvellously happy childhood, as the oldest and superintending brother of a large, jubilant family; he published the first stanza of "Jabberwocky" in a "newspaper" he used to put out for his brothers and sisters.
While Judt is proudly a man of the left, with a romantic view of a world now gone, in which national solidarity and comradeship were underpinned by pre-Beeching railway lines, there is plenty in this marvellously written book that has an old-fashioned Tory like me nodding in enthusiastic agreement.
Into this situation steps fortysomething Anna (marvellously played by Kathryn Worth), who is an old schoolfriend of one of the women present.
Around them, too, is the last of Edwardian England: petticoats, railway porters and benevolent old gentleman on trains, who are marvellously able to sort things out.
Four, five matches, and you'll have it – you'll know how best to time your tackles, and from what distance you can realistically land low-detail bonce on old-school size five with a marvellously over-the-top diving header animation.
