'I think she'd want me to be happy and healthy': Teary Stella McCartney discusses her late mother Linda and receiving her OBE in emotional interview ahead of big fashion honour

Published: 11:55 GMT, 27 November 2017 | Updated: 14:27 GMT, 27 November 2017

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She will be the first ever recipient of the Special Recognition Award for Innovation at the British Fashion Awards next week.

And Stella McCartney became very emotional on Monday, as she looked back at her stellar career and family upbringing in a new interview, ahead of the big honour.

Speaking to CBS, the teary-eyed designer, 46, discussed the pride she felt at receiving an OBE before reflecting on what her late mother Linda, who passed away in 1998, would think of her success.

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Looking back: Stella McCartney became very emotional as she looked back at her stellar career and upbringing in a new interview, ahead of her honour at the British Fashion Awards

Memories: Speaking to CBS , the designer, 46, discussed receiving an OBE before reflecting on what her late mother Linda, who passed away in 1998, would think of her success

While she is the daughter of famous Beatles crooner Paul McCartney, Stella has carved a hugely successful career of her own in the fashion world.

Looking back at her exciting life ahead of her new honour from the British Fashion Council, the mother-of-four admitted that receiving her OBE back in 2013 was one of her proudest moments.

Gushing of her excitement at meeting the monarch herself, she told CBS: 'I was very lucky to get the Queen, I have to say, because some days you don't get the Queen,' before adding playfully: 'Yes, I got the Queen!'

Style icon: While she is the daughter of famous Beatles crooner Paul McCartney, Stella has carved a hugely successful career of her own in the fashion world

Incredible: Looking back at her life, the mother-of-four admitted that receiving her OBE back in 2013 was one of her proudest moments (above)

Exciting: Gushing of her excitement at meeting the monarch herself, she told CBS: 'I was very lucky to get the Queen, I have to say, because some days you don't get the Queen'

Recalling the surreal moment itself, she went on: 'So I go up, and I'd just done the 2012 Olympic Games - drop the mic on that - and the Queen looks at me and she says, 'So, you seem very busy.'

'And I was like, Oh my God, I was not expecting the Queen of England to say that I was busy. And I said, 'Well, not quite as busy as you, ma'am!''

The royal honour had come a matter of months after Stella had been crowned Designer of The Year for Team GB's Olympic kit with Adidas - a role she maintained at the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro.

Playful: Recalling the surreal moment, she went on: 'I was like, Oh my God, I was not expecting the Queen of England to say that I was busy. And I said, 'Well, not quite as busy as you, ma'am!'

Talent: The London native revealed she had dreamed of being a designer ever since she was a young girl - and even made her first jacket at the age of 12

Courage: She then moved to Paris three years later to intern at the likes of Saint Laurent, which she admitted had put her 'out of her comfort zone'

Having made her mark on the fashion industry, the London native revealed she had dreamed of being a designer ever since she was a young girl - and even made her first jacket at the age of 12.

She then moved to Paris three years later to intern at the likes of Saint Laurent, which she admitted had put her 'out of her comfort zone', as she had never left home before.

As the daughter of a Beatle, Stella confessed her upbringing had been unconventional - but that meeting stars regularly was simply the 'norm' for her.

Opening up: As the daughter of a Beatle, Stella confessed her upbringing had been unconventional - but that meeting stars regularly was simply the 'norm' for her

Surreal: She joked: 'It was kind of mad - one minute you're hanging out with Michael Jackson, and the next you're riding a horse in a field, or getting on the school bus'

Best pals: She is still very close to her father Paul (pictured together in 2000), however her mother Linda sadly passed away in 1998, after a three-year battle with breast cancer

She continued to CBS: 'I think I always knew they were famous, but it was the norm. It was kind of mad - one minute you're hanging out with Michael Jackson, and the next you're riding a horse in a field, or getting on the school bus.'

She is still very close to her father Paul, however her mother Linda sadly passed away in 1998, after a three-year battle with breast cancer.

When asked how she thinks her mum would feel about her success, Stella became quite emotional - and revealed she wants to make her children proud, like she had wanted to make her mother in her youth.

Heartbreak: When asked how she thinks her mum would feel about her success, Stella became quite emotional

Main woman: She she wants to make her children proud, like she had wanted to make her mother in her youth (pictured with Linda and Paul in 1974)

Caring: She said, through teary eyes: 'I think she'd just want me to be happy and healthy. But she's a mummy and I'm her baby, so I think she'd want to make sure I'm OK'

She said, through teary eyes: 'I think she'd just want me to be happy and healthy. But she's a mummy and I'm her baby, so I think she'd want to make sure I'm OK.

'As a child you only really ever want to make your parents proud, so I just want to do that with my kids and husband and people I encounter.'

Stella shares sons Miller and Beckett, and daughters Bailey and Reiley with publisher husband Alasdhair Willis, who she married in 2003.

With her career to be going strength to strength, Stella most recently released her new party capsule collection for NET-A-PORTER.