I recall they delayed giving Alfred Hitchcock and Charlie Chaplin their knighthoods until they were almost literally about to step into their graves. That is probably why the likes of David Niven, Cary Grant, Ronald Colman and even Boris Karloff missed out. In my case, it was at the end of an eight-year voluntary campaign to save Elstree Studios and they were proposing me for an MBE. I asked him if he would visit Elstree Studios and he replied he had not been there since a private visit to the set of Murder on the Orient Express with Lord Mountbatten. On his departure he said to me: “Paul, you have been around this studio for a long time and long may that continue.”Long live Elstree Studios!