Elizabeth Taylor was used to top billing when it came to her films, but the acting great had a little-known brief cameo as a courtier in a film that starred her husband at the time, Richard Burton.

Even by the often lurid standards of the aristocracy, it's a remarkable story - one which will either be exposed as a mythical oddity or confirmed as an extraordinary, episode.

Apparently, Delvaux doesn’t own a pair of sweatpants and will only stoop to cargo pants if he really needs to dress casually.