Why the Queen 'refused to hand Mick Jagger a knighthood' Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister, was said to have repeatedly tried to add Jagger's name to the Honours List but was rebuked by the Queen because he was "not suitable," the Daily Mail reported. When his name was finally added, the book's author Christopher Andersen Andersen quotes an anonymous Royal aide saying: "The Queen looked at Mick Jagger's name on that list, and there was absolutely no way in the world that she was going to take part in that. So she simply arranged to be elsewhere. On December 13 2003 he eventually accepted his honour, but the Queen was not there to give it to him. She said to have told one of her doctors at King Edward VII Hospital in London: "I would much rather be here than at Buckingham Palace knighting a certain party." His book also details the lurid and numerous affairs Jagger, 68, is said to have had with both sexes. The author has alleged that Jagger, who had seven children by four women, had a long-term love affair with fellow musician David Bowie in the 1970s. In his new book, the writer claims that Angie Bowie, who was married to David at the time, returned to their London home to find the two men asleep together in her bed. Jagger is also said to have had an affair with Carla Bruni, the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and courted Angelina Jolie with "desperate phone calls" for two years. Neither Jagger nor Buckingham Palace have commented on the book.