“What do each of you want to be when you grow up?” my mother asked my two brothers and I one morning at breakfast. I was 9, and my brothers 7 and 5.
I can’t remember how Simon (middle brother) and I replied, but Jeremy exclaimed: “I want to be King” to which my mother responded with, “Well that can’t happen because you have to be a member of the royal family.”
I recall very clearly how unfair I thought this was, and hence the starting point of a now strongly held set of values all based on a meritocratic society.
So when my partner, (soon to be wife), Joanna Swash was awarded an OBE and an invitation to an investiture at Windsor Castle, (with a +3 guests), I had to question myself as to whether it was appropriate to go. And I’m so pleased I did for several reasons.
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