No Ma'am! Celebrities Who Turned Down Honors from Queen Elizabeth - PEOPLE

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The author of The Chronicles of Narnia declined a CBE he was to have been awarded in 1952.

I feel greatly obliged to the Prime Minister, and so far as my personal feelings are concerned this honour would be highly agreeable,” he wrote in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1951. However, he felt many believed that Christianity is "covert anti-Leftist propaganda, and my appearance in the Honours List would of course strengthen their hands. It is therefore better that I should not appear there."

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