Game Of Thrones star Emilia Clarke awarded MBE in Windsor Castle ceremony following brain haemorrhage

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Actress Emilia Clarke has said that she felt “ill-equipped” to be a normal person again after she almost died from a brain haemorrhage.The Game of Thrones star received her MBE from the Prince of Wales on Wednesday.

She appeared alongside JD Wetherspoon's boss Sir Tim Martin and ex-money boss Sir Sajid Javid Clarke was made an MBE alongside her mother Jenny as co-founders of SameYou, a brain injury recovery charity they established after the actress survived two brain haemorrhage.

The charity focuses on the rehabilitation of patients after they leave hospital.Clarke had her first brain haemorrhage in 2011, a month after she had finished filming the first season of Game Of Thrones.She said the hardest part of her illness was coming home and realising she was on her own."You spend a month in hospital, every day they tell you you're going to die," she shared."And then you go home, and you have to live with that.""I found that incredibly difficult, and my family found it incredibly difficult.""You are so taken care of, and so supported, and then you are let out into the world.""And it seems terrifying, and you feel like you are ill-equipped to be a normal person again because you have just been told that you are going to die every three seconds.""That was the hardest adjustment, and then I did a film set and I said: 'Oh, this is mental anyway', so..."Clarke shared that Prince William made her and her mum feel "so comfortable" during the honours ceremony."I think I underestimated the magical nature of being here and the ceremony of the whole thing," she admitted."His Royal Highness William was just delightful and made us feel so comfortable."Her mum mentioned that William was "very well briefed" about their charity and why