Meet The People Who Turned Down A Knighthood

As time and tradition poignantly prove, ambition makes you look pretty ugly, and the sycophantic hunger for social status and all the artful artifice of bestowed honors makes you look uglier than an ugly pig beaten senseless with an ugly stick.

The desperation to kneel before the monarch as a subject and arise a knight of the realm is a peculiar and sycophantic tradition in Great…