<P> Neal and Dahl divorced in 1983 . He married Felicity "Liccy" Crosland, niece of Francis D'Abreu who was married to Margaret Ann Bowes Lyon - 1st cousin of the late Queen Mother, at Brixton Town Hall, South London . Dahl and Crosland had previously been in a relationship . Liccy gave up her job and moved into "Gipsy House", Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, which had been Dahl's home since 1954 . </P> <P> In 1983 Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War . He wrote that the book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli", saying, "I am not anti-Semitic . I am anti-Israel ." Dahl told a reporter in 1983, "There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity...I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason ." Dahl had Jewish friends, including philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, who said, "I thought he might say anything . Could have been pro-Arab or pro-Jew . There was no consistent line . He was a man who followed whims, which meant he would blow up in one direction, so to speak ." Amelia Foster, director of the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, says, "This is again an example of how Dahl refused to take anything seriously, even himself . He was very angry at the Israelis . He had a childish reaction to what was going on in Israel . Dahl wanted to provoke, as he always provoked at dinner . His publisher was a Jew, his agent was a Jew...and he thought nothing but good things of them . He asked me to be his managing director, and I'm Jewish ." </P> <P> In the 1986 New Years Honours List, Dahl was offered an appointment to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), but turned it down . He reportedly wanted a knighthood so that his wife would be Lady Dahl . In 2012, Dahl was featured in the list of The New Elizabethans to mark the diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II . A panel of seven academics, journalists and historians named Dahl among the group of people in the UK "whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character". </P> <P> Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C.S. Forester, was "A Piece of Cake", on 1 August 1942 . The story, about his wartime adventures, was bought by The Saturday Evening Post for US $1,000 (a substantial sum in 1942) and published under the title "Shot Down Over Libya". </P>

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