The word “conservative” hardly does justice to Fr Jean-Marie Charles-Roux, who has died at the age of 99. He was a firm believer in the Divine Right of Kings, the cause for the canonisation of Marie Antoinette, and, of course, the Tridentine Rite. Fr Charles-Roux was for many years resident preacher at London’s St Etheldreda’s, Ely Place. As a student in Rome, he often dropped into the Jesuit Church of Sant’ Ignazio to see Fr Felice Cappello SJ celebrating Mass. He confided to his friend Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith that Fr Cappello always said Mass “six inches off the ground, gliding effortlessly from one end of the altar to the other, as the Tridentine usage dictated. And because he was extremely short, even though he was floating, one did not notice it o