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Dame Judi Dench Given University Honor
26-Jun-2008
Written by: Angela P. Cobb
Actress given honorary degree.
Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench has been honored for her work by Scotland’s St. Andrews University, BBC News reports.
The 73-year-old star was given an honorary doctor of letters degree and was very pleased and surprised by the notice. Dr. Simon Fraser Campbell, a top chemist, was also honored at the ceremony.
“I had never been to St. Andrews before, so I'm very pleased and I'm going to boast about it a lot,” raved Dench. The actress has played roles such as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love and Queen Victoria in the film, Mrs. Brown.
On all the pomp and circumstance, Dench admitted: “It was very embarrassing, you know. You see a photograph of yourself and that's embarrassing and then you have to stand up in front of a lot of people while someone says the whole of your life to you.”
But she also thanked: “It is a huge day of celebration and I'm frightfully pleased to have been asked.”
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