Paula Byrne: prediction

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…Do you think there’s some element of jealousy? That you are Lady Bate, and that in some sense someone feels that’s not deserved, and it’s a sort of protest. Hundred percent. I think they think I’m Lady Docker from Liverpool. I think they think, “Who the hell does she think she is?” Those things don’t matter anything — to me, that was Jonathan’s accolade, and he deserved it. Getting a title from that is not my title. It’s lovely for him, and I support him, and I think he deserved it. I think he’s only the second person to be knighted for services to literature. I was so proud of him, but it wasn’t mine. I definitely think there were some people, particularly in Oxford and Cambridge, who were really, really angry about it and really thought — because I am outspoken, Tyler. I do say it as it is, and it is the Scouser in me. I don’t really put up with bullshit. I don’t think people like that. They thought that I should just shut up and put up. There was a lot of viciousness that came as a result of the title. Really interestingly — you can’t know this, but it’s absolutely true — the first letter came a week after the knighthood was announced. I think that was the trigger. I was like, “Ah, somebody’s seen this in the papers, and this is the trigger.” I don’t know, I can’t say whether there was some sort of, not even envy, but just, “Who does she think she is?” Do you think you’re an outspoken Liverpudlian as a therapist?…

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