Godolphin vs Ballydoyle

[Anonymous]

I’m a Sir Michael Stoute man through and through and a huge fan of Henry Cecil. How our Mick has a knighthood and Henry doesn’t is beyond belief and an absolute disgrace. HM should extract the finger and correct that asap.

Michael Stoute got his gong, not for Racing, but for services to Barbados tourism. Cecil has to overcome the shadow of certain… well, domestic scandals which knocked his stable for six a few years ago. Nor has been been a (significant) Royal trainer, so he’s unlikely to feature on HMQ’s personal list.

The domestic difficulties do matter: a particular musician I was trying to promote for a knighthood a few years ago fell under the same opprobrium with the Civil Service powers that were, for exactly the same reason (public scandals and divorces.)

[Anonymous]

Well she should still give him one…that doesn’t quite sit right does it?

[aji]

The domestic difficulties do matter: a particular musician I was trying to promote for a knighthood a few years ago fell under the same opprobrium with the Civil Service powers that were, for exactly the same reason (public scandals and divorces.)

Of course the royal family have been a model of domestic stability and marriage over the years

[Anonymous]

Of course the royal family have been a model of domestic stability and marriage over the years

Your side thrust misses the mark. The Royal Family have no say whatsoever in the production of the Honours List, apart from the Queen’s own orders for personal service (RVO knighthoods et. al.) Other than this, HMQ has to hand out gongs to whomsoever her Government tells her.

Marital stability is deemed to be good by and for society at large, which is why handing out honours to people who’ve had major press exposure for anything different is not encouraged. It’s also why the Royal Family have themselves had such appallingly bad press over the last two decades.

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