Later on, she expressed her cooking experience in dozens of books that were adored by readers. The proof for the above is the number of 21million copies sold, which makes Smith one of the best-selling cookery authors in the United Kingdom today. What’s more, Delia and her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones, are joint majority shareholders at Norwich City F.C., an English professional football club. This role, earned Delia varying media attention, ranging from positive, as she “saved” the club from bankruptcy, to negative, when she gave a controversial on-pitch announcement in 2005. Already holding the high honor OBE, the Queen appointed her Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honors, thanks to her “contribution to television cookery and recipe writing”.