and everyone i ve ever slept with. i was told that there was a good possibility that i would only have six months to live. four years ago, she was diagnosed with an aggressive bladder cancer, which she openly documented on her instagram. once portrayed as an enfant terrible of british art, she s now been made a dame by king charles for services to art. tracey, congratulations. or should i say dame tracey? congratulations. how are you feeling about it? well, i m smiling for lots of reasons. but dame tracey, i mean, it has a ring about it. it s really cool. i don t think there s ever been one before, and it s good. ifeel like it s a new generation of dames, really. what does it mean to you? there s nothing like a dame. no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always
no. don t get me singing. 0h, go on. no, i think for me, really seriously, what it means is that. it s the recognition from the king and from the establishment for what i ve achieved in my lifetime as an artist, which is kind of a man s world, really, and always has been. and. i don t know, ifeel like i ve. it just feels really cool. and the best thing is, i only found out about it recently because i hadn t received the letter. so what happened? how did you find out about it? well, i went to buckingham palace for the garden party, and i was in a line up with five people out of 3,000, to shake the hand of the king and queen. and i was thinking, this is a bit weird. well, i m kind of up the top here. wonder why? and then on my way home, i got a message saying, from my old studio, that there was a letter for me, marked urgent from the cabinet office. so i thought, oh, i better go and see what it is. and there it was, asking me if i d accept a damehood. so do you think they