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The British honours system comprises both dynastic honours, the personal gift of the Sovereign, and British state honours or decorations (known as imperial honours or decorations outside the UK), which are not. Dynastic honours continue to be conferred by the Sovereign across the Commonwealth realms, although outside the United Kingdom they are ...
List of titles and honours of Mary of Teck; List of titles and honours of George VI; List of titles and honours of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; List of titles and honours of Elizabeth II; List of titles and honours of Queen Camilla; List of titles and honours of Charles III ...
This article serves as an index, as complete as possible, of all the honours (orders, decorations and medals) given by the British Crown to members of the British royal family and foreign royal families.
Honours have been awarded at New Year since at least 1890, in which year a list of Queen Victoria's awards was published in The London Gazette on 2 January. [1] There was no honours list at New Year 1902, as a list had been published on the new king's birthday the previous November, [2] but from January 1903 until 1909 a list (including only Indian orders) was published.
The precedence of the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Earl Marshal, the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain are determined by the rank and class of the peerage of the holders of such offices. In Scotland, the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and the Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, if Peers, rank after the Lord Speaker of the House of ...
List of British special constables awarded honours; List of cricketers who were knighted; List of football personalities with British honours; List of knights bachelor appointed in 1911; List of knights bachelor appointed in 1912; List of knights bachelor appointed in 1913; List of knights bachelor appointed in 1914; List of knights bachelor ...
New Zealand honours order of wearing; Notes References. This page was last edited on 16 November 2024 ...
The author C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) was named on the last list of honours by George VI in December 1951. Despite being a monarchist, he declined so as to avoid association with any political issues. [38] [39] In 2019, comedian John Oliver turned down an offer of an OBE, which would have been part of the Queen's New Year's Honours list. [40] [41]