Question: What honour was given to a British knight of Art and Entertainment who was detained in French prisons until January 1944 ?

text: List of honorary British knights and dames
Arts and entertainment

This is an incomplete list of people who have been created honorary Knights or Dames by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which do not carry pre-nominal styles. Use of pre-nominal styles and post-nominal initials. An honorary award is one made to a person who is not a citizen of a Commonwealth realm. He or she cannot use the pre-nominal style of 'Sir' or 'Dame', but can use the post-nominal letters (after their names), subject to the prevailing conventions in his or her own country. If such a person later acquires citizenship of a Commonwealth realm, then any honorary awards usually become substantive, and in the case of knights and dames they can begin to use the pre-nominal styles. However this is not automatic. The person must be dubbed by the Queen or Her Majesty's delegate in order to be entitled to use the pre-nominal style. If the knighthood is in an order which has a special class for honorary knighthoods, a change to a regular class of knighthoods is also required. Loss of citizenship of a British realm. Citizens of a country which was a full part of the British Empire or Commonwealth when they received the honour (i.e. who were British subjects at the time), were substantive knights or dames, not honorary. The knighthood does not become honorary, and the person may choose to use his or her title(s), after their country becomes a republic.
Name Nationality Honour Year Category Notes
Daniel Barenboim Argentina / Israel KBE 2011 Arts/Entertainment Pianist and conductor
Jorge Luis Borges Argentina KBE tbd Arts/Entertainment Poet and writer
Alfred Brendel Austria KBE 1989 Arts/Entertainment Pianist
Julien Cain France KBE 1952 Arts/Entertainment Administrator-general of the Bibliothèque nationale de France for services to British cultural issues . see also fr : Julien Cain
Ralf Dahrendorf Germany KBE 1982 Arts/Entertainment Became a British national in 1988
Christian Conrad Sophus , Count Danneskiold-Samsøe Denmark KCVO 1904 Arts/Entertainment
Anna Morpurgo Davies Italy DBE 2000 Arts/Entertainment
Plácido Domingo Spain KBE 2002 Arts/Entertainment Opera singer ; awarded for contributions to music and charity work
Antal Doráti Hungary KBE 1983 Arts/Entertainment
Maurice Druon France KBE 1999 Arts/Entertainment Previously appointed Honorary CBE in 1988
Douglas Fairbanks Jr United States KBE 1949 Arts/Entertainment In recognition of his work on behalf of Anglo-American amity , particularly as chairman in the United States of the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe
Naum Gabo Soviet Union KBE 1973 Arts/Entertainment
Mark Getty United States KBE 2015 Arts/Entertainment
Bernard Haitink Netherlands CH 2002 Arts/Entertainment Musical director of the Royal Opera House
Bernard Haitink Netherlands KBE 1977 Arts/Entertainment Principal Conductor , London Philharmonic Orchestra for his enormous contribution to the artistic life of this country
Bob Hope United States KBE 1998 Arts/Entertainment Entertainer , for contribution to Anglo-American friendship He had lost British nationality in 1920
Magnus Magnusson Iceland KBE 1989 Arts/Entertainment
Ferdinand Meldahl Denmark GCVO 1904 Arts/Entertainment Chamberlain to the King of Denmark and Vice President of the Royal Academy of Arts , Copenhagen
Yehudi Menuhin United States / Switzerland KBE 1965 Arts/Entertainment Became a British national in 1985 . Appointed a substantive Member of the Order of Merit in 1987
Spike Milligan Ireland KBE 2001 Arts/Entertainment Comedian , awarded for services to entertainment