damehood

Killing Eve’s Harriet Walter planned to snub damehood – but accepted honour as feminist statement

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Killing Eve’s villain Harriet Walter: I planned to snub the Queen’s ‘anti-egalitarian’ damehood – but accepted honour to make a feminist statement By Caroline Graham In Los Angeles For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:56 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 22 August 2020 Killing Eve villain Harriet Walter has revealed that she … Read more

Honours scandal: Firm boasted it could get ‘damehood for £80k’

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A firm boasted it could win a gong for a celebrity author for £80,000, the Daily Mail reveals. Leaked emails expose a cynical offer to help Barbara Taylor Bradford become a dame by getting direct feedback from ‘the people that matter’. The brazen messages stated: ‘Basically our fee is 80K plus VAT… we bill half … Read more