In the year before his death, we had quite a bit of momentum going here for a petition for Mick McManus to appear in the honours list. Unfortunately, his passing brought our campaign to an abrupt end.
I was just rewatching his interview from 1997 where he is seated in (his) garden and he says it was a great career which took him to "Buckingham Palace and Downing Street."
Sure enough, he's photographed with Harold Wilson.
I am wondering what the circumstances would have been that took him to both places?
Lord's Taverners activities I guess.
But I'm wondering who he went with? And whether those colleagues were honoured for equivalent services to charity?
The Duke of Edinburgh seems to have been long term president of the Lord's Taverners and this probably explains how he came to attend RAH wrestling presentations.
Is there any possibility Mick McManus did have an honour of some kind and we just don't know about it? Maybe even pre-1965 and under his previous name?
Were any other wrestlers Lord's Taverners?
Did the Lord's Taverners, within their own activities, make any mention of thanks or the financial benefit from the times Prince Philip attended the wrestling?
And the magic of Bernard's stories. To think Bernard started out on here and said he'd nothing to say. Another lovely story Bernard, thanks.