Award-winning hairdresser does not feel ‘worthy’ of royal honour
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An award-winning hairdresser who started free pamper sessions for women with cancer said she does not feel “worthy” after being awarded a British Empire Medal in the King’s Birthday Honours. She opened her salon Lady J’s in the town in 2011 and started hosting the free pamper sessions three years later after she helped friends who had cancer with their wigs. “Nothing in the world can give me that feeling and I always think, ‘I was born to do this because of how good it makes me feel’.” Mrs Lauder, who won the Scotswoman of the Year award in 2019 and was named MacMillan volunteer of the year in 2012, said “teamwork” is to thank for her salon’s achievements. If you’d said to me 20 years ago, ‘Jill, you’re going to end up with this’, I’d have said, ‘Well, what for?’ “Maybe one day I will be able to tell the grandkids about it.”
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