cream tea

However, Mrs Malyon, who runs a cream tea company, admits her and husband Roger, 68, are "old enough to know better".

Fractious disputes about scones rage on: Do you say “skon” or “skohn”? Is it acceptable to serve fruit scones at a cream tea, or only plain ones?

Another concerns whether it is acceptable to serve fruit scones at a cream tea, or only plain ones.

“What sort of fool decides to end a fractious month at the National Trust by posting a picture of a cream tea?”

At the concert the night before, Elizabeth stole the show with a prerecorded sequence in which she shared a mishap-prone cream tea with Paddington Bear, voiced by the actor Ben Whishaw.