Anyway there my parents were ensconced in the embassy which is the grandest and the most beautiful house in the whole of Paris and certainly the most magnificent embassy of any embassy in the world. I mean, it was owned by Napoleon's sister Pauline. It was bought from her by the Duke of Wellington when he was made ambassador himself just after Waterloo and it was a palace by any standards. And I got there in time for Christmas, my Christmas holidays. Very excited because the war was still on so how did a schoolboy get from London to Paris when the war was still on? I'll tell you how a schoolboy got from London to Paris when the war was still on. His father came over and he went back with a squadron of Spitfires under escort. That was the way things happened. And it was three days and three nights of my father and me sharing a twin bedded room in the Dorchester until the weather was good enough for the RAF to fly us to Paris. Three days before Christmas, you know. And during those three days, we were told never to leave the hotel for more than a couple of hours because at any moment there might be a little window in the cloud or something like that.