When Rolf Harris died aged 93, he ended his life as a convicted paedophile. Since his release from prison in 2017, after serving almost three years, he had lived as a virtual recluse with his wife of 64 years, Alwen Hughes.
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Harris was awarded an MBE in 1968, an OBE in 1977 and a CBE in 2006. The BBC commissioned him to paint the Queen Elizabeth’s portrait for her 80th birthday that year and broadcast a programme, The Queen, By Rolf, to accompany it. In 2010, he appeared at Glastonbury and Bestival, while a national exhibition tour, A Life in Art, marked his 80th birthday.for five years and nine months after being found guilty of indecently assaulting four girls and young women.
After his conviction, others came forward. Vanessa Feltz, the television and radio presenter, said she was assaulted by Harris in May 1996 while interviewing him live for the On the Bed segment of Channel 4’s The Big Breakfast. Maggie Barry, a New Zealand politician, said Harris had groped her in the mid-1980s when she was a radio reporter.
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