Not the knot

SIR – When I was a National Serviceman in the Fifties we were forbidden to use the Windsor knot (Letters, September 26). I thought this was a pity as it is more symmetrical.

I assumed that this ban was due to antipathy towards the presumed inventor, and loyalty to his reigning brother on the part of the Army hierarchy.

Roy Bailey

Shefford, Berkshire

SIR – James Bond would “never trust a man who wears a Windsor knot”.

It is hard to imagine the Duke of Edinburgh losing sleep over such nonsense.

Brian Swindell

Burnaston, Derbyshire