She is far from immune from fashion snobbery, and has been known to rail against fat people wearing stretch jeans, and anyone at all wearing flip-flops, but she speaks sense on the subject of ageing.
I was grateful for the facilities and made some lasting friends, but I shared most normal people's disdain for much of the pomp and snobbery.
I went to Marseille, however, because it prides itself on its reputation in France as an unforgivingly working-class city with no time for pretension, the opposite of Parisian snobbery and elitism.
There was some snobbery about information that was written down to begin with.
First, there is a straightforward snobbery about vocational skills.
The secrecy of the British honours system, with its tradition of idiocy and colonialism, snobbery and taint, now requires much of each batch of knighthoods, commanders, and so forth, to be received with Sir Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris (OBE, MBE, CBE) or Fred Goodwin-induced caution.
If you want to get some sense of the ethos of English sport before the rise of professionalism, without the snobbery that went with it, the best place to look is probably the GAA.
Her aversion comes not out of snobbery, nor did she chance upon some in her dressing room backstage at last week's ITV leaders' debates.
Its absence leaves the Globes open to accusations of snobbery.
Often only the person's father is described and such descriptions can smack of snobbery as well as sexism.
Cameron – whose own children are at state primaries – would not have objected to Gove's well-publicised decision in March to send his daughter to a state secondary school, although a piece by Gove's wife, the Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine, explaining the choice and stating that the private sector was "about snobbery", may have grated with the old Etonian.
