[citation needed] It is also the only accepted knot for the SD tie of the RAAF and AAFC in Australia.

[4] However, it is often frowned upon in other Armed Services or Regiments of the British Forces through its association with the Duke, who as King Edward VIII famously abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

[citation needed] The Windsor and four-in-hand knots are authorized for use by all services of the Canadian Forces.

[citation needed] In the 1999 book The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao, the Windsor knot is knot 31 and described in that book's notation as: This notation encodes the following series of steps: Common variations on the Windsor include: In Ian Fleming's novel From Russia, with Love, Chapter 25 is entitled "A tie with a Windsor knot".

James Bond, traveling on the Orient Express, is met by a supposed fellow British agent, who wears "the dark blue and red zigzagged tie of the Royal Artillery, tied with a Windsor knot.[...]