British author J.K. Rowling, renowned for her Harry Potter series, has stated that she has already turned down a peerage title twice.
In mid-October a YouGov survey found that around 40% of Britons would support hypothetical appointment of J.K. Rowling as a peer. Former Business and Trade Minister Kemi Badenoch had previously expressed her willingness to offer Rowling a peerage.
“It’s considered bad form to talk about this but I’ll make an exception given very particular circumstances. I’ve already turned down a peerage twice, once under Labour and once under the Tories. If offered one a third time, I still wouldn’t take it. It’s not her, it’s me,” Rowling wrote on social media.
J.K. Rowling author of seven Harry Potter books published between 1997 and 2007 and translated into 65 languages. Total circulation of her books exceeds 400 million copies. The final film adaptation of series was released in 2011.