Queen's birthday honours: Hunter Davies says wife was far from impressed with award.
Hunter Davies, the writer and Beatles biographer, said his wife was far from
impressed with the news he is to receive an OBE for services to literature.
Mr Davies, who wrote the only authorised biography of the Beatles in 1968,
said Margaret Forster, the novelist, had even threatened to divorce him over
the issue.
But Mr Davies said he was "honoured" by the award, adding: "I'm the last
person my wife and family associate with literature, I'm just a hack that
got lucky. She probably won't come with me but maybe the children or
grandchildren will come, it will amuse them".
The 78-year-old Scottish-born writer, who grew up in Carlisle, is the author
of more than 70 books including novels, travel writing and The Glory Game
which is based on a season he spent behind the scenes at Tottenham Hotspur.
Mr Davies said he was looking forward to visiting the palace to pick up his
OBE, having posed as a chauffeur to take his brother-in-law there when he
was honoured 20 years ago.
"I have been to the palace once before. My brother-in-law Roger Priestley got
an OBE, he was a senior civil servant but had MS and had trouble getting
around so he was allowed a driver and so I dressed up as a chauffeur and
drove him in, then went and sat in a little hut with all the famous people's
drivers," he said.
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