Post by FPM on Jul 11th, 2012 at 2:54pm
Evidently Keith wasn't the only one who thought a knighthood for Mick
was a bad idea!
from the Telegraph:
The Queen avoided personally giving Sir Mick Jagger his knighthood because she thought he was an inappropriate candidate for honour, it has been claimed.
6:30AM BST 11 Jul 2012
The 86 year-old monarch is said to have not had "the stomach" to present the Rolling Stone's frontman in 2003 on account of his anti-establishment views.
She is also said to have disliked the star's s relationship with her sister, the late Princess Margaret, and as a result asked the Prince of Wales to give him his knighthood instead.
The Queen was said to have deliberately scheduled an operation to remove cartilage from her left knee for the day before Jagger received one of the country's highest honours.
The claims were made in a new controversial, and unauthorised, biography 'Mick: the Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger', which was released in America in Tuesday.
Jagger once called the Queen "Chief Witch" and proclaimed "anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope".
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Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, was said to have repeatedly tried to add Jagger’s name to the Honours List but was rebuked by the Queen because he was "not suitable", the Daily Mail reported.
When his name was finally added, the book's author Christopher Andersen Andersen quotes an anonymous Royal aide saying: "The Queen looked at Mick Jagger’s name on that list, and there was absolutely no way in the world that she was going to take part in that. So she simply arranged to be elsewhere."
On December 13 2003 he eventually accepted his honour, but the Queen was not there to give it to him.
She said to have told one of her doctors at King Edward VII Hospital in London: "I would much rather be here than at Buckingham Palace knighting a certain party."
His book also details the lurid and numerous affairs Jagger, 68, is said to have had with both sexes.
The author has alleged that Jagger, who had seven children by four women, had a long-term love affair with fellow musician David Bowie in the 1970s.
In his new book, the writer claims that Angie Bowie, who was married to David at the time, returned to their London home to find the two men asleep together in her bed.
Both men apparently woke up with a start.
"Do you want some coffee?" she asked, and returned a few minutes later with coffee and orange juice on a tray.
The escapade is outlined with quotes from friends and family, and according to Andersen: "Ava Cherry, a backup singer who lived with the Bowies for a time, reportedly told a friend that 'Mick and David were really sexually obsessed with each other. Even though I was in bed with them many times, I ended up just watching them have sex'."
After meeting in the early Seventies, Andersen says that both stars became fascinated with one another.
Not long after their first encounter in 1973, when Mick visited Bowie backstage at one of his concerts, Andersen claims that their relationship quickly turned physical.
Jagger is also said to have had an affair with Carla Bruni, the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and courted Angelina Jolie with "desperate phone calls" for two years.
Neither Jagger nor Buckingham Palace have commented on the book.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9391107/Why-the-Queen-refused-to-hand-Mick-Jagger-a-knighthood.html
was a bad idea!
from the Telegraph:
The Queen avoided personally giving Sir Mick Jagger his knighthood because she thought he was an inappropriate candidate for honour, it has been claimed.
6:30AM BST 11 Jul 2012
The 86 year-old monarch is said to have not had "the stomach" to present the Rolling Stone's frontman in 2003 on account of his anti-establishment views.
She is also said to have disliked the star's s relationship with her sister, the late Princess Margaret, and as a result asked the Prince of Wales to give him his knighthood instead.
The Queen was said to have deliberately scheduled an operation to remove cartilage from her left knee for the day before Jagger received one of the country's highest honours.
The claims were made in a new controversial, and unauthorised, biography 'Mick: the Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger', which was released in America in Tuesday.
Jagger once called the Queen "Chief Witch" and proclaimed "anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope".
Related Articles
David Bowie and Mick Jagger's long-rumoured love affair revealed in new book
10 Jul 2012
Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, was said to have repeatedly tried to add Jagger’s name to the Honours List but was rebuked by the Queen because he was "not suitable", the Daily Mail reported.
When his name was finally added, the book's author Christopher Andersen Andersen quotes an anonymous Royal aide saying: "The Queen looked at Mick Jagger’s name on that list, and there was absolutely no way in the world that she was going to take part in that. So she simply arranged to be elsewhere."
On December 13 2003 he eventually accepted his honour, but the Queen was not there to give it to him.
She said to have told one of her doctors at King Edward VII Hospital in London: "I would much rather be here than at Buckingham Palace knighting a certain party."
His book also details the lurid and numerous affairs Jagger, 68, is said to have had with both sexes.
The author has alleged that Jagger, who had seven children by four women, had a long-term love affair with fellow musician David Bowie in the 1970s.
In his new book, the writer claims that Angie Bowie, who was married to David at the time, returned to their London home to find the two men asleep together in her bed.
Both men apparently woke up with a start.
"Do you want some coffee?" she asked, and returned a few minutes later with coffee and orange juice on a tray.
The escapade is outlined with quotes from friends and family, and according to Andersen: "Ava Cherry, a backup singer who lived with the Bowies for a time, reportedly told a friend that 'Mick and David were really sexually obsessed with each other. Even though I was in bed with them many times, I ended up just watching them have sex'."
After meeting in the early Seventies, Andersen says that both stars became fascinated with one another.
Not long after their first encounter in 1973, when Mick visited Bowie backstage at one of his concerts, Andersen claims that their relationship quickly turned physical.
Jagger is also said to have had an affair with Carla Bruni, the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and courted Angelina Jolie with "desperate phone calls" for two years.
Neither Jagger nor Buckingham Palace have commented on the book.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9391107/Why-the-Queen-refused-to-hand-Mick-Jagger-a-knighthood.html