You have to hand it to Wimbledon. Not only is it the competition that the world’s leading tennis players say they want to win above all others but it seems to be very well organised and well run too. It has its own special rules, of course, and no matter how the players may dress in other tournaments around the world, when it comes to Wimbledon they must dress in white.

Yesterday saw an excellent men’s final between two of the greatest players to grace the tournament’s green lawns, the Swiss Roger Federer and Serbian Novak Djokovic, both immaculately turned out of course.

Looking at the crowd on our television screens was to look at a cross-section of the great and the good from sport, the arts and politics. They were all well turned out too. Pity then,  poor old Lewis Hamilton, the Formula 1 champion and current leader of the 2015 competition.

Hamilton received an invitation to watch the final from the splendour of the Royal Box but, according to the BBC “he was turned away for not wearing a jacket, tie and shoes, having arrived in a bright floral shirt and a hat”.

Presumably he was wearing something other than a shirt and a hat but even so, to us mere mortals, it’s quite reassuring to know that, no matter how famous or wealthy you may be, if you don’t follow the rules you don’t get in!