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director Danny Boyle, who turned down a knighthood after he staged the widely praised opening ceremony at the 2012 London Olympics, says it would have been a ‘betrayal’ to have accepted the honour.

Although Boyle persuaded the Queen to appear in his Olympics ceremony, he is a Left-wing republican and says he has ‘no regrets’ over rejecting being made ‘Sir Danny’. He says: ‘It’s not my cup of tea at all. I did the job for the opposite reason — to feel like I belonged to something, rather than feel I was being elevated above it.

‘It would have been the worst betrayal to accept it.’

The Oscar winner has previously said he turned it down because he believed in being ‘an equal citizen rather than a preferred subject’.