McCartney dress as she accepted her award in London
We all know the big-voiced warbler that is Adele is a pretty talented lady.So
it’s hardly a surprise she was named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list this
year for her services to the music industry.And the Rolling in the Deep
hitmaker was handed
her award by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in London on
Thursday.Adele looked as glamorous as ever as she met the Prince at the palace
and wore a dark turquoise patterned Stella McCartney dress and a Philip Treacy
fascinator on her head.The
performer has become a worldwide phenomenon with her debut album 19 and the
follow-up 21 selling millions of copies both at home and abroad.But it hasn’t
always been an easy ride for Adele after she suffered medical woes and had to
have nodules removed from her vocal cords in 2011.Receiving her MBE is just the
latest in a string of a positives for Adele – in the past, the
Tottenham-born singer has told how her second album 21 was inspired by a
“rubbish relationship”, but she has gone on to find love with partner
Simon Konecki, the father of her son Angelo.And earlier this year she unveiled a
tattoo of the letter A behind her ear, thought to be in honour of her child,
born in October last year.From an early age she wanted to sing and her mother
regularly arranged the lamps in her house to form a spotlight so Adele could
perform to family and friends.She was offered a recording contract with XL
Recordings after a friend posted her demos on MySpace soon after she graduated
from the performing arts Brits School in Croydon in 2006.Her debut album 19,
also inspired by heartache, went straight in at number one following its
release in 2008.She had already been tipped for success after becoming the
first winner of the new Critics’ Choice Award at the Brits.Like You at the 2011
Brit Awards, which became the launchpad for 21.Adele also enjoyed the longest
run ever by a woman at the top of the UK album charts, surpassing Madonna, and
she became the first woman to have two singles and two albums in the UK top
five at the same time.Adele – who won a record six Grammy Awards in the US last
year – has said she will never write another break-up record as she is
“done being a bitter witch”.Her chart-topping releases made the
singer the natural choice to sing the theme to the James Bond movie Skyfall –
the song that landed her an Oscar earlier this year.She has largely kept out of
the limelight since becoming a mother, with appearances at awards events
seemingly her chief reason for heading out after-hours these days.And proving
she’s just the same girl she was before she rose to fame she branded her trip
to the palace “very posh indeed”.In a statement issued after the
ceremony, she said: “It was an honour to be recognised and a very proud
moment to be awarded alongside such wonderful and inspirational people. Very
posh indeed.”
