Why the Queen 'chose not to hand Mick Jagger a knighthood'

London, July 11 (ANI): The Queen deliberately scheduled an operation to avoid personally giving Sir Mick Jagger his knighthood because she thought he was an inappropriate candidate for honour, a book has claimed. The 86 year-old monarch is believed to have not had "the stomach" to present personally the knighthood to Rolling Stone's frontman in 2003 because of his anti-establishment views. She is also said to have disapproved the star's s relationship with her sister, the late Princess Margaret, and as a result asked the Prince of Wales to bestow knighthood on him. It is alleged that the Queen was said to have deliberately scheduled an operation to remove cartilage from her left knee for the day before the musician was due to receive one of the country's highest honours. The claims were made in a new controversial, and unauthorised, biography 'Mick: the Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger', which was released in America in Tuesday. The 68-year-old had once called the Queen "Chief Witch" and proclaimed "anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope". According to the Daily Mail, 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 she felt that he was "not suitable", the Telegraph 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." (ANI)