The Great British Bake Off host Prue Leith was made a Dame in the final birthday honours list compiled by the late Queen Elizabeth II last June. However, as she subsequently learned, if you wish to receive your honour from a member of the Royal Family, patience is considered a virtue. So the South-African born TV chef decided to expedite the process after communicating with the Palace.
“I had a letter from the Palace that said, ‘We can’t give you your Damehood for four years because there’s a backlog,’ she revealed.
“I thought, ‘I haven’t got four years.’ They said, ‘Your local Lord Lieutenant can do it, or you can have it by post.’
“So, I had the Lord Lieutenant come. She was all dressed up in smart uniform at my house, my daughter read the citation and it was lovely and we had a drink.
“No royals involved,” she told Jonathan Ross on his chat show to be aired this Saturday.
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“The second half the audience asks me questions. I thought I would hate it because I was so frightened when we did the tryouts,” she admitted.
“Then my doctor gave me some wonderful drugs that stop your heart going like this [pumping] and it calmed my heart down.
“There are so many comedians who are well past their sell-by date, and they can’t stop.
“And the reason they can’t stop is because of that feeling of the audience loving you. It’s just such a drug, honestly,” she confessed.
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