When Willard Wigan was a schoolboy growing up in Wolverhampton never in his wildest dreams did he ever imagine he would be both honoured by the Queen and also be granted an honorary doctorate in his adult life. Struggling to read and write, he had undiagnosed autism and dyslexia but 60s education was not very forgiving of these conditions. He remembers being ridiculed for his lack of academic ability, cruelly paraded around other children as an example of failure and told he would amount to nothing in his life.
