Overview
- John says he asked to keep both kneecaps after his double knee replacement, which startled his surgeon.
- He enlisted designer Theo Fennell, who describes baking, drying and sealing the bone with acetate before polishing.
- John has shown a gold-framed pendant containing a fragment from his right patella.
- Fennell created a bone-themed chain, and the pendant’s reverse carries a Latin inscription meaning “I will no longer bow to any man.”
- Reports place the revelation within John’s broader medical history, including an appendectomy in 2013, long-term Type 2 diabetes and complications after prostate cancer surgery in 2017.