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Why on God's green earth would the Queen knight some dufus disc jockey?
He was a larger than life pop music character who raised vast amounts of cash for charity by his very oddness (while gaining access to deprived/disabled kids in the process) His public persona was of an eccentric do-gooder, such that he was associating with the great and the good on charity projects. He could be seen with Prince Charles, and spent many weekends and lunches with Margaret Thatcher. (all of which served to protect him from too close investigation)
There were rumours, but no credible facts, and not only would he simply brazen out any questions, he allegedly went so far as to ask a reporter "Think for a minute, if these allegations were true, would you want to be the one who put an end to all the charity fundraising I do for major hospitals?"