CHIVALRY IS DEAD :

Chaplin knighthood blocked (BBC, 21 July, 2002)

Confidential Foreign Office papers just released by the Public Record Office reveal how for years Charlie Chaplin was denied a knighthood.

The papers are being put on the Record Office website from Monday, 22 July.

They include a hostile report on Chaplin by the Foreign Office research department in 1956.

This drew attention to his "communist" sympathies and to his morals - his marriages included two to girls aged sixteen and he had once lost a paternity suit.

Great, a communist child-chaser. Can George Michael be far behind? Posted by Orrin Judd at July 21, 2002 8:58 AM