Photographs: The Last Stage
Charlie Chaplin with his wife Oona outside Buckingham Palace shortly after receiving his Knighthood on 4th March 1975. From the mid-fifties to the early seventies the Foreign Office blocked the Knighthood, seemingly nervous of America's political stance on the comedian
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