I think it is time to reveal that all is well. You will not have to call him 'Sir Bill'.

Foreign nationals given honorary knighthoods do not have the right to call themselves 'Sir'.

See:
http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/...e66-knight.asp

I think this is rather a shame when it is someone who deserves it, like Bob Geldof, but quite useful when it is someone that doesn't, like Bill Gates.

So, whatever the British government thinks of him, he can still be Bill, Spawn of the Devil, to us!

ICPUG