Cameron's former spin doctor, Craig Oliver, was given a knighthood.
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He framed a certificate of his 2000 knighthood in Mali.
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" He also purportedly wrote, "Unless it's a knighthood fuck off.
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McEwan bestows on Turing the career, and knighthood, he deserved.
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Who wouldn't want a Nobel Prize, Academy Award or knighthood?
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The Queen even conferred an Honorary Knighthood on the former President.
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He received a knighthood for his work in opera in 2012.
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"I haven't found it distracting really," Murray said of the knighthood.
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Other MPs had demanded that Sir Philip be stripped of his knighthood.
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Rabindranath Tagore, the poet and Nobel laureate, returned his knighthood in protest.
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" Another executive: "You'd have to be craven, or maneuvering for a knighthood.
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In 2008, he was honored with the country's equivalent of a knighthood.
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To me, speaking up would smack of vindictiveness masquerading as white knighthood.
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Hawking had reportedly turned down Knighthood, and, amazingly, never won the Nobel Prize.
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Bono got an honorary knighthood ... that's why he doesn't get the Sir treatment.
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The status, ranked beneath a knighthood, recognizes achievement in the arts and sciences.
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Ishiguro, who was born in Japan, received a knighthood for his services to literature.
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He has starred in 100 films, won two Oscars and even received a knighthood.
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Brienne accepted her knighthood from Jaime with perhaps her first moment of unbridled joy.
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"Each knight, when not following the banner of his sovereign, was in himself an independent being, acting from his own sense of virtue," Charles Mills writes of the virtues of knighthood in The History of Chivalry of Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2.
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His work earned him design awards, a knighthood and the company of celebrities like Bono.
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Setchell, 71, retired soon after George was born – and received a knighthood for his service.
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The Knight Bachelor, the most common knighthood bestowed upon sitting MPs, is technically the lowest.
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She reportedly scratched him with a sword during a mock knighthood ceremony at a party.
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For all of this, he was granted a knighthood in the 2017 New Year Honours.
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Iceland's government is expected to award the players and coaches the equivalent of a knighthood.
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He's a well-compensated lawyer with a knighthood, an Oxford degree and a London address.
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Dubbed "Beckileaks," the hacked emails revealed Beckham's displeasure when he did not receive a knighthood.
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He will become the first American fashion designer to be recognized with the honorary knighthood insignia.
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Naipaul received a knighthood in 1990, and in 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Another clue: An elaborate tombstone commemorating knighthood was found at the site over a century earlier.
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Podrick tells Tyrion he was offered a knighthood if he would testify that Tyrion bought poison.
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A knighthood or damehood is the highest honor awarded in the five categories approved by the Queen.
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Starr was awarded the knighthood in the New Year's honors list released by the palace in December.
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William also received his Order of the Garter knighthood that year, so it was a momentous occasion.
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For Green, the report increases pressure to revoke his knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail.
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In 2008, the queen stripped him of an honorary knighthood granted during his visit 14 years before.
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You basically went to Facebook to play Farmville, Scrabble, Knighthood, and the things you guys were doing.
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His knighthood (though of course he said yes to it, weakly, as ever) made him shrivel up.
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But the awkward truth is that the honours committee was actually right to refuse him a knighthood.
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David Beckham is responding to reports he allegedly used his UNICEF charity work to campaign for a knighthood.
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Lauren's honorary knighthood insignia will be presented by one of the Queen's men at a ceremony next year.
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John Hayes, a Eurosceptic Conservative MP, discovered as much when he was awarded a knighthood on November 23rd.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth awarded him an honorary knighthood in November 1993 for his leadership during the Gulf War.
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In Mr Johnson's defence Jacob Rees-Mogg, a backbench Tory, suggested that he should be given a knighthood.
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Charles led the latest one on Thursday, in which he extended a knighthood to legendary singer, Van Morrison.
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I realize I haven't congratulated him on his knighthood, a chivalric faux pas if there ever was one.
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Former RBS chief executive Goodwin was stripped of his knighthood but kept an annual pension of 342,500 pounds.
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Green will hope he has done enough to retain his knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail.
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He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1988 and was awarded a knighthood in 1996.
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But I am happy with the knighthood, and it is a nice way to start the new year.
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In 2002, he received a star of Romania, and in 2006, an honorary knighthood in the United Kingdom.
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For Green, however, the report will increase pressure to revoke his knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail.
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So Boucicaut needed all that extra training to be the prime specimen of knighthood he was said to be.
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Irish-born Wogan, one of the BBC's most recognizable faces and voices, was granted a British knighthood in 2005.
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All of that, combined with his knighthood, meant that the tag of 'champagne socialist' wasn't hard to make stick.
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However, some lawmakers still want Green to be stripped of his knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail.
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If Grande does accept, she would join other notable Americans such as Angelina Jolie and Bill Gates in honorary knighthood.
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" (This foreword is said to have cost Greene a knighthood, deservedly so.) And it's Philby's memoir that probably inspired "Defectors.
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The 70-year-old was awarded a knighthood in 2014 for his service to the aviation industry and British prosperity.
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Farah said was been proud to represent Britain and to have received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth earlier this year.
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Some politicians have called for the tycoon to be stripped of his knighthood if he does not make good the deficit.
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After he was deposed in 1989, the queen also stripped Ceausescu of an honorary knighthood bestowed upon him during the trip.
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Last month, Mr. Saumarez Smith, 64, was awarded a knighthood, one of Britain's highest honors, for his services to the arts.
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A few months before that, she showed up in white sneakers to her knighthood ceremony, which was led by Prince William.
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The private ceremony took place in Buckingham Palace on Wednesday where Lauren, 79, was presented with the honorary knighthood by Prince Charles.
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The annual celebration of the Order of the Garter, one of the oldest and most senior order of knighthood in the U.K.
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On top of her previously bestowed knighthood, she is now a Companion of Honour which is maybe the best title of all.
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Here's the theory: Blunt joked about wanting to receive a knighthood, so Beatrice gleefully fetched a ceremonial sword to perform the deed.
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The regulator's move will likely rekindle the debate over whether Green should retain his knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail.
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The Australian painter Ross Watson counts among his fans two members of the honorary British knighthood: Sirs Elton John and Ian MacKellen.
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I have been proud to represent my country, win medals for the British people and receive the greatest honour of a knighthood.
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Her excellent sword-fighting skills were finally acknowledged, and someone she respects and appears to love gave her the highest honor of knighthood.
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Now, with her official knighthood, she's just as much of a knight of the Seven Kingdoms as her ancestor, Ser Duncan, once was.
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Ian Powell, the chairman of FTSE 100 outsourcing firm Capita, and ex-chairman of Big Four accountants PriceWaterhouseCooper will also receive a knighthood.
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The Queen utilizes her knighthood (and damehood!) to recognize all sorts of people, such as military and political leaders, philanthropists and even celebrities.
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But if you want to win the big lady you gotta give the big lady what she wants: Knighthood and some personal space!
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Call him Sir Andy Murray now ... 'cause the tennis superstar was at Buckingham Palace on Thursday -- receiving his knighthood from Prince Charles himself!!
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By 2008 the West had well and truly turned against Mugabe, with major institutions stripping him of his honorary degrees and a knighthood.
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This gallery talk at the Met Cloisters in New York will focus on knighthood and its hidden secrets in art from medieval times.
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"We found little evidence to support the reputation for retail business acumen for which he received his knighthood," it said in its conclusion.
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It was largely the brainchild of Tim Bell, who had earned his reputation, along with a knighthood, helping Margaret Thatcher win three elections.
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British Leyland was one of the board's most troublesome projects, and the turnaround that Mr. Edwardes orchestrated there earned him knighthood in 1979.
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Sir Ed Davey, who served in the coalition government of 2010-15 and has the knighthood to prove it, is also mulling a run.
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Excerpts from the stolen emails — between Beckham and his PR adviser Simon Oliveira — show that Beckham was angry after being passed over for knighthood.
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Even though she is pinned as the oppositional brat to Sam's white knighthood, she has a depth and complexity that makes sense to me.
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This retelling of the Arthurian legend is another wonderful Disney animated classic, complete with delightfully strange magical encounters and an inspiring tale of knighthood.
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"Many academicians predicted he would do so once he had received a knighthood," he said, adding that he was concerned about the institution's finances.
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Clearly, not much has changed in the Murray camp since his remarkable stretch run to the No. 20103 ranking and a knighthood in 22010.
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For the media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, Urban worked on now-obscure films like "When Knighthood Was in Flower," starring Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies.
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The Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III in 1348 and is the most senior order of knighthood in the British honors system.
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The British government rewarded him with a knighthood and a peerage—he relished being called Professor Lord Bhattacharyya—and his fellow management theorists revered him.
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He became known for his charity work, particularly acting as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, in recognition of which he received a knighthood in 2003.
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Though his 2002 knighthood likely marked the end of his days as a rock provocateur, the second half of his prophecy has now come true.
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He was also presented with an honorary knighthood in the UK by Prince Charles in 2016 for his services to British theater and international culture.
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Engel said she was honored to receive the knighthood, but she rejected the apology, telling family and friends that it was too little, too late.
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As well as Boycott, May nominated former England cricket captain Andrew Strauss for a knighthood, while Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick will receive a damehood.
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Shortly after bagging Mr. Jackson as a client, Mr. Gallin and his staff were asked to get him a knighthood from the Queen of England.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb received a knighthood from Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, where he was honored for his services to music and charity.
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The 74-year-old star of Mrs Brown and Brave said he was "pleased and a little embarrassed" to receive a knighthood for services to entertainment.
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Weinstein received the title, which is one step down from a knighthood, from Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 for his contribution to the British film industry.
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However, he's not the first metalhead to be given the honour of knighthood, as that likely goes to the late, great English actor Sir Christopher Lee.
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Even if he played it down, the prospect of him getting a knighthood tickled the fancy of Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
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Isaiah Berlin, Mr Gray's tutor, was loaded down with honours, including a knighthood and the Order of Merit, for being such a brilliant writer and talker.
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Even a New Year knighthood for veteran euroskeptic Conservative MP John Redwood made no difference, as he announced he would still vote against the May deal.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Theresa May has chosen Geoffrey Boycott, one of her cricket heroes, for a knighthood, attracting criticism from domestic abuse charities.
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The Queen stripped him of his title and knighthood, and he was forced to resign from various academic honors, including as a fellow at the British Academy.
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Kelvin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), an honor one rank below a knighthood, in 2011 for services to the fashion industry.
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Sandor, seeing all the horrible things one can commit as a knight, decides that he will not take a knighthood, not wanting to be associated with his brother.
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And you might be confused, given that traditional notions of knighthood and chivalry (not to mention logic) have never really factored into the Transformers series all that much.
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It's rich with detail about Mr. McCartney's philanthropy, his knighthood, his taste in country homes, his dabbling as a painter, a poet and a composer of classical music.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton says he is not expecting his sixth Formula One world championship to be recognized with a knighthood at the end of the year.
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Holding such high office also brings prestige and, much like peerage or knighthood in Britain, is seen as a marker of status in the Communist Party-dominated establishment.
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Devotees of Mr. Rylance — and who by this point isn't under the spell of an actor with a knighthood, an Oscar and three Tony Awards to his name?
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He built up a huge fan base over his decades-long career thanks to his inimitable voice and often subversive humour, and was awarded a knighthood in 22016.
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A CBE, or Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, is considered a major honor for a British citizen and is one rank below knighthood.
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Singer and songwriter Barry Gibb talks with Prince Charles, left, during an Investiture ceremony to award a knighthood to Gibb, at Buckingham Palace in London, Tuesday June 26, 2018.
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If you're wondering why this particular penguin has a knighthood and why it's receiving visits from the Norweigan armed forces (both legitimate questions), it's because he's the regiment's mascot.
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Following a debate in parliament lasting more than two hours, lawmakers backed a call for Green to be stripped of his knighthood, awarded in 2006 for services to retail.
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It represented the five wounds of Christ, five faultless fingers, the five senses, the five joys of the Virgin Mary and her son, and the five virtues of knighthood.
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Thatcher nominated for knighthood, insisted that there were two sides to every story, and that Bell Pottinger's job was to make sure that the version it was telling prevailed.
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In 2000, the UK stripped him of his 1994 knighthood and the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees revoked the honorary law degree it gave to Mugabe in 1986.
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Mr. Bianchi died in 2003, having built his modest family business into an industrial empire and been rewarded for his efforts by a knighthood conferred by the Italian government.
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Dame Grand Cross is the highest grade of the Royal Victorian Order, which is an order of knighthood dating back to the 1800s to honor personal service to the monarchy.
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On Friday, British newspaper The Sun published reportedly leaked emails between Beckham and his publicist from 2013 where they discussed the soccer star working on securing a knighthood in 2013.
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And this week, it became official when Lauren was presented with the honorary knighthood insignia by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales in a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
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Queen Elizabeth II with Sir Anthony Blunt (later stripped of his knighthood) at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1959, five years before he confessed to being a Soviet spy.
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Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin, criticised for his role in the bank's near collapse, was stripped of his knighthood in 2012, although the government described it as "an exceptional case".
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A few years later, Mr. Weinstein, who had produced a series of British-themed movies, was made a Commander of the British Empire, an honorary title just short of knighthood.
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And if you like your sports with foreshadowing, the only other top tennis player to receive a knighthood was Sir Norman Brookes, the Australian star of the early 20th century.
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Just like how her Game of Thrones character defied her highborn status in favor of knighthood, Gwendoline Christie hopes her 6'3″ stature breaks the mold of traditional beauty standards in Hollywood.
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On Monday, Prince William wore a traditional velvet robe and hat (complete with ostrich feathers!) for Garter Day, which celebrates the oldest and most senior order of knighthood in the U.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Game of Thrones may be finished (for now), but medieval history and the concepts of chivalry and knighthood are no less fascinating in its absence.
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The Beatles drummer was selected for knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2018 New Year's Honors list, along with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees and the author Michael Morpurgo.
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Abbott's party agreed to sack him in September 2015 after a series of events which had destroyed his reputation and polling numbers, including giving a knighthood to Britain's Prince Philip in 2015.
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Barry Gibb, the last surviving member of the Bee Gees, dedicated his knighthood to his late bandmates, twin brothers Robin Gibb, who died in 2012, and Maurice Gibb, who died in 2003.
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Then he and Arron Banks, a big donor, said that UKIP's only MP, Douglas Carswell, should be sacked, seemingly to punish him for failing to secure a knighthood for Mr Farage himself.
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You can officially put a "Sir" on it -- Ringo Starr took a knee Tuesday morning and received his Knighthood, a mere 21 years after Sir Paul McCartney ... but no one's counting, right?
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She did not name any companies, but British lawmakers have backed stripping billionaire Philip Green of his knighthood over the collapse of the BHS department store, which went into administration in April.
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A noted importer of antiques, stones and fur, he was so esteemed that Iranian authorities bestowed upon him the title Agha, a knighthood of sorts, and the family adopted it as their surname.
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Earlier today, Irish rock star, Band Aid impresario, singer of "I Don't Like Mondays," and honorary British knight Bob Geldof threw his support behind the campaign to award Muhammad Ali an honorary knighthood.
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LOS ANGELES — After 2100 years in the spotlight, more than 2000 million albums sold, six Grammys, a Tony, an Oscar and a knighthood, Elton John still gets the jitters when he steps onstage.
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You know we can't forbid you to do anything, but don't make it, because everyone will be really cross, and the Old Man will be very cross and you'll never get a knighthood.
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Many lawmakers voted for his knighthood, bestowed in 2006, to be rescinded, a rare procedure, but the threat was shelved when Mr. Green agreed to pay $466 million into the BHS pension plan.
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At 50, Apple's design chieftain still looks like the rugby player he once was, and he remains, despite fame, fortune, and a knighthood, the same soft-spoken Brit I met almost 20 years ago.
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Some lawmakers have called for the tycoon to be stripped of his knighthood - awarded by Tony Blair's Labour government in 2006 for services to retail - if he does not make good the pension deficit.
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Evola, especially in his Revolt Against the Modern World, invokes the Knights Templar to argue for a kind of spiritual knighthood that supersedes what he calls "exoteric devotional Christianity" with a more mystical chivalry.
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His main calling-card was his pleasant personality and personal diligence, not his talent level, and much of the headlines surrounding after the trade were related to the fact that he had a knighthood.
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In anticipation of Ali's arrival, British boxer David Haye has organized an online petition calling on Great Britain to bestow upon Ali an honorary knighthood, the greatest title the country can grant to a non-citizen.
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But Mac Donncha, a councillor for the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party, also criticized Geldof's gesture, saying it was ironic as Geldof held a British knighthood despite "the shameful record of British imperialism across the globe".
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THE DECISION by Theresa May to reward a fellow Conservative, John Hayes, with a knighthood in November drew criticism, as it was seen as a move to quell his vocal opposition to the government's Brexit deal.
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Then there are the fighters, who pursue knighthood and enjoy armored battle, such as this recent event called the 100 Minutes War, which was followed by a royal court presided over by the king and queen.
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He was also accused by David Triesman, a British politician and the former head of England's soccer association, of demanding a knighthood in return for his support of England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
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Towards the end of a career which earned him a knighthood, he chose not to retire and had been due to perform in the northern English town of Bolton this month before he was taken ill.
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Known as the Knighthood of the Brewer's Paddle, the guild of brewers walked to music through Brussels' historic Grand Palace to the cathedral for the ceremony, where the wooden cask of beer was blessed by a priest.
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Skream never got his teeth fixed, people seemingly preferred to stay in with lager and Storage Wars rather than go clubbing, and for reasons that'll never be explained, Mo Farrah got the knighthood nod over Route 94.
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In the spare moments in between, he planned to attend Vera Wang's induction into the Légion d'Honneur—the French equivalent of a knighthood—and the première of her new collection, on which he'd been working all winter.
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The lyric here has a lot of direct references to the backwards-ness of the Aussie government—religious connotations, "knights and dames" referring to the re-institution of the colonial idea of Knighthood, the disrespect of women.
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Digging into the relationships of Arya, Jaime, and the like were incredibly slow burns, where moments of foreshadowing played off to the moments we've witnessed several years later—like Brienne's undying relationship to the concepts of knighthood.
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In 2017, Boycott apologised "unreservedly" after the Daily Mirror reported that he had said he needed to black up to improve his chances of getting a knighthood given how many West Indian cricketers had received the honour.
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There is Nicolás Leoz, the Paraguayan delegate, playing the role of a particularly unconvincing Bond villain by asking England for the chance to meet the Queen, a knighthood and that the F.A. Cup be named after him.
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An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary misstated the location of Windsor Castle, where Mr. Hurt was pictured after being awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II. It is in Windsor, England, not London.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran Scottish rocker Rod Stewart received a knighthood in Queen Elizabeth's birthday honors list on Friday as a weekend of events was launched to mark the official 0003th birthday of Britain's oldest and longest-reigning monarch.
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The onetime bad boy of British art has spent the better part of the last five decades in Los Angeles, and in 1990, he turned down a knighthood, though he is no adversary of the monarchy, he said.
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Former Tour de France champion Wiggins, affectionately known as 'Sir Wiggo' after receiving a knighthood for his exploits, ran across the steeply banked track to celebrate his eighth Olympic medal, one more than Chris Hoy, with his wife Catherine.
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Among them are Stephen Dodgson, who has been given a knighthood for his work as Business Group Director of the government's UK Export Finance body, and Simon Walker, the director-general of business lobby group the Institute of Directors.
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Many are now calling for Green to be stripped of his knighthood, which he received in 2006 and has managed to hold on to even after it was reviewed in 2016 by the Cabinet Office following the BHS collapse.
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Britain-born Berners-Lee, who was honored with a knighthood in 2003, pioneered the web in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as a way to allow scientists across the world to share information.
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Bowie was often wrongly seen, particularly back in 1970s, as some kind of right-wing nationalist (I note, with some pleasure, that Bowie, unlike Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney, turned down the offer of a knighthood from the queen in 2003).
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No word yet on whether HRH the Queen will be extending a knighthood to the resilient arachnid, but the scorpion survived a 10-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean and a cycle through the wash — just to visit our foggy island.
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The honors are: Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), knighthood or damehood (KBE and DBE), and Companion of Honour (CH).
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"The only chance he has of keeping that knighthood, which seems to mean much to him and his wife, is paying up very, very generously on a pension settlement," Labour lawmaker Frank Field, who chairs the Work and Pensions Committee, told Sky News.
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Stanford, who referred to himself as "Sir" Allen Stanford after receiving a knighthood from the tiny Caribbean nation, styled himself as an international man of mystery who promoted the game of cricket and just might be a CIA operative (he was not).
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"Honour may seem to some people to be an unusual word to use when it comes to business, but for effective business ultimately honour is all that you have," said Conservative lawmaker Richard Fuller, who headed the call to strip Green's knighthood.
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He circulated among the cities and courts of Europe: from Antwerp to Rome and Genoa, back to Antwerp, then to London, where in 1632 he joined the court of Charles I, and was quickly granted a knighthood, pension, house and country retreat.
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It was intended to be symbolic: A guest invited to take part in a welcoming ritual would drink from a vessel that represented the host — in this case, Heinrich von Bobenhausen, leader of the influential Teutonic Order of Knighthood from 1572 to 1590.
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Other notable American recipients of an honorary UK knighthood or damehood include former Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; former New York City Mayors Michael Bloomberg and Rudolph Giuliani; Angelina Jolie; Steven Spielberg; Bill and Melinda Gates; and Angela Ahrendts.
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That's right, the one and only Route 94 will bag himself a knighthood for services to the music industry and it'll be bloody well deserved and Sir Route 94 will take his rightful place as the most important figure in the history of British nightlife.
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Neil MacGregor, the museum's scholarly and yet impish outgoing head, turned down the knighthood that would have drawn him further into the British establishment, and became instead the nation's storyteller-in-chief with his radio series, "A History of the World in 100 Objects".
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Tiuri, a young would-be knight in some vaguely medieval period in some clearly Northern clime, is interrupted during the vigil preceding his knighthood, when young squires were expected to stay up all night praying by candlelight in a chapel before the next day's ceremony.
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In 2015, Prince Charles anointed Mantel with the title of Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, the equivalent of knighthood, prompting some in the press to sneeringly draw comparisons between the modern-day royals and the louche, back-stabbing behavior of the Tudors.
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Dividing agricultural hinterlands from port cities, and abruptly reducing Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs on either side of the new border to a religious minority, Radcliffe delivered a plan for partition that effectively sentenced millions to death or desolation while bringing him the highest-ranked knighthood.
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In addition to receiving an MBE in recognition of his services to music and charity from Prince Charles, the Grammy winner has a scar on his face from when his friend Princess Beatrice reportedly scratched him with a sword during a mock knighthood ceremony at a party.
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Kapoor, one of the most well-known artists working today, holder of the exclusive rights to one of the most fascinating pigments ever produced, recipient of multiple prestigious awards and British knighthood, naturally responded to Semple's new pigment with a super classy Instagram post a few days ago.
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Speaking of strange bedfellows, if Ali is granted an honorary knighthood, he will not only be joining Bono and George Bush but J. Edgar Hoover, the former head of the FBI who famously investigated and tried to undermine the Civil Rights movement and Ali's beloved Nation of Islam.
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With the knighthood, Ms. Engel wrote, her grandmother had "accepted the acknowledgment and attention to her story after so many years, but that was not the same as accepting an apology for the killing of all but a handful of her family and hundreds of thousands of other Jews."
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"We had a little twirl around the room, nobody else there, and I said, 'I think this is the throne room,' " he explained, recalling that it was where he was given a knighthood in 1991 and Dench was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1988.
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Kate missed last year's ceremony while on maternity leave, but she was all smiles while William wore the velvet robes and high ostrich plume in his hat for the annual celebration of the Order of the Garter, one of the oldest and most senior order of knighthood in the U.K.
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Just know that Keaton is now on the other side of dark knighthood: officially he's Adrian Toomes, a straight-shooting blue-collar engineer; unofficially, he's also got a strong entrepreneurial sideline in stolen government-grade experiments, including a weaponized harness with a wingspan somewhere between a condor and a small Cessna.
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Yet as the race to succeed Mr. Corbyn begins, and Labour seeks a path out of the wilderness, the early betting is on another Londoner, Keir Starmer, who not only has a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his "services to law and criminal justice," but also holds an advanced law degree from Oxford.
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Yet as the race to succeed Mr. Corbyn begins, and Labour seeks a path out of the wilderness, the early betting is on another Londoner, Keir Starmer, who not only has a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his "services to law and criminal justice," but also holds an advanced law degree from Oxford.
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Other low points of Abbott's stint as Australia's prime minister include the time he was widely denounced for giving Prince Phillip a knighthood, when he winked and smirked on a radio show while talking a call from an upset pensioner, and when he bemused Australians by taking a bite out of a raw onion on camera.
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Over the years he has declined a knighthood ("It would be like wearing a suit every day of your life"); the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire; and an honorary degree from Oxford University, his alma mater, on the grounds that Rupert Murdoch had recently sponsored a department chair at the school.
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