Given the job of being an official portrait painter of the queen in 2005. in 2013, when these charges were brought, the shock was palpable. i rememberwhen were brought, the shock was palpable. i remember when he had his court case and was surrounded by people as he walked into court, and his natural inclination wa5 people as he walked into court, and his natural inclination was to smile and wave because that is what his entire life had been, a beloved entertainer. but they had not come to cheer him along. convicted of 12 assaults against four young women and girls between 1968 and 1986. the on...