Ever wonder why Steve Jobs doesn't have a 'Sir' in front of his name? Apparently, it's because of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. An ex-member of Parliament recently revealed that
Brown refused to knight Jobs in 2009 because the Apple CEO declined an invitation to speak at a major political conference. The former MP has also claimed that he nominated Jobs for an honorary knighthood, and that the approval process reached the final stages before being struck down by the then-Prime Minister. Brown's spokeswoman, however, said the story is just rubbish. "Mr. Brown did not block a knighthood for Steve Jobs," she insisted.
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Subscribe to commentsmishtMar 1st 2011 8:24PM
Steve Jobs would not have been allowed to become a knight because he is a US Citizen. The Constitution states that no American citizen may accept a title of nobility, so Jobs would have had to either rescind his citizenship or decline the knighthood.