Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
My grandmother was given an MBE years ago. When she got the letter she hid it on top of a cupboard and told nobody about it. In her youth she had been in the Communist party and she wasn't at all interested in the award.
My dad happened to spot it while he was changing a lightbulb at her flat and persuaded her to go, because lots of her colleagues had campaigned for a long time to get her the award.
Isn't it the case that she would have been approached in advance as to whether she would accept it?