Former Wales and Lions star Brynmor Williams says he is “blown away” at receiving an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The 70-year-old ex-Cardiff, Swansea and Newport scrum-half has been recognised for his services to sport and charity in Wales.
“I’m thrilled, privileged and very surprised. I didn’t see it coming. I knew absolutely nothing at all about it,” he says. “Then I had a letter about three weeks ago. I thought ‘What’s this?’. It was a big thick yellow envelope from the Cabinet office. I thought it was from the revenue! I didn’t put two and two together at all.
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