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Honorary citizenship is a status bestowed by a city or other government on a foreign or native individual whom it considers to be especially admirable or otherwise worthy of the distinction. The honour usually is symbolic and does not confer any change to citizenship or nationality.
As the head of state, the Sovereign is the fount of honour, [1] but the system for identifying and recognising candidates to honour has changed considerably over time. . Various orders of knighthood have been created (see below) as well as awards for military service, bravery, merit, and achievement which take the form of decorations or
Citizens of a country which was a full part of the British Empire or Commonwealth when they received the honour (i.e. who were British subjects at the time), were substantive knights or dames, not honorary. The knighthood does not become honorary, and the person may choose to use his or her title(s), after their country becomes a republic.
This is a list of current honorary knights and dames of the Order of the British Empire. Grand Cross Star of the Order of the British Empire. Honorary knights and dames
Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order; Honorary Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John; Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire; Major Sosi'ua Ngalumoetutulu, 4th Kalaniuvalu-Fotofili (Princess Mele Siu'ilikutapu's husband) Honorary Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order [citation needed]
Dr Muhammad Shafie Bin Kamaruddin MBE – 11 June 2024 – Honorary appointed in 2022 to be made Substantive [44] Dr Maria João Rodrigues De Araujo – President, Portugal-UK 650. For services to UK/Portugal relations – 21 November 2024 – Honorary appointment from earlier in the year to be made Substantive [31] [47] Honorary
Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. [4] Today the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. [5] Honorary awards may be made to citizens of other nations of which the order's sovereign is not the head of state.
11 May 2005 – : Honorary Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit [11] The Duchess of Edinburgh: 2016: Recipient of the Canadian Forces' Decoration; The Princess Royal: 1982: Recipient of the Canadian Forces' Decoration with two clasps; 20 May 2023 – : Extraordinary Commander of the Order of Military Merit; The Duke of Kent: