'We drive the children to school and it's only a ten-minute journey, but there's always a jam at the same traffic light every morning — you know, that achingly frustrating 15 minutes when you're stuck in traffic trying to travel 100 yards to get your kids to school.
'Of course, the jam would have to be opposite this 40ft-wide poster of me that was there for about six months.
'I kept distracting the children from it by changing the radio and talking about anything I could think of, and for three months it worked. Then one morning, my son Gulliver looked up and said: 'Dad! There's a huge picture of you on the wall!' '
Damian Lewis - Wolf Hall's Henry VIII - on why it's his TV star wife Helen McCrory who rules their marriage!
When Damian Lewis was summoned to Buckingham Palace to receive his OBE — awarded for services to acting — he decided to treat himself to a new morning suit.
He hadn't worn one since his school days at Eton, where it is the uniform, but as he would be receiving his honour from Prince William, himself an Old Etonian, he thought it would be an appropriate reminder. 'I had it made by a Jermyn Street tailor called Favourbrook, but as I'd spent five years at Eton wearing a black morning suit, I had my new one made up in blue material,' he says.
'We drive the children to school and it's only a ten-minute journey, but there's always a jam at the same traffic light every morning — you know, that achingly frustrating 15 minutes when you're stuck in traffic trying to travel 100 yards to get your kids to school.
'Of course, the jam would have to be opposite this 40ft-wide poster of me that was there for about six months.
'I kept distracting the children from it by changing the radio and talking about anything I could think of, and for three months it worked. Then one morning, my son Gulliver looked up and said: 'Dad! There's a huge picture of you on the wall!' '
'We drive the children to school and it's only a ten-minute journey, but there's always a jam at the same traffic light every morning — you know, that achingly frustrating 15 minutes when you're stuck in traffic trying to travel 100 yards to get your kids to school.
'Of course, the jam would have to be opposite this 40ft-wide poster of me that was there for about six months.
'I kept distracting the children from it by changing the radio and talking about anything I could think of, and for three months it worked. Then one morning, my son Gulliver looked up and said: 'Dad! There's a huge picture of you on the wall!' '