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16-06-2017, 10:23 PM
Queen's Birthday Honours 2017 (UK)
- Knighthoods and Damehoods awarded to famous faces including Billy Connolly and Julie Walters
- JK Rowling, , Delia Smith and Sir Paul MacCartney to receive a Companion of Honour
- Ed Sheernan and Emeli Sande to receive Order's of the British Empire (MBEs)
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/billy-queens-birthday-honours-list-billy-connolly-jk-rowling-paul-mccartney-delia-smith
Arise Sir Billy Connolly: the famously foul-mouthed and anarchic comedian Billy Connolly, whose 75th year has already been marked with towering gable-end mural portraits in his native Glasgow, has been knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
Connolly has in the past been teased and even heckled for his friendship with members of the royal family, including Prince Charles, but once said: “I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.”
The comedian and actor is honoured for his services to entertainment and charity, and his knighthood will join a list of other awards he has earned over his career.
Joining Connolly on the honours list are Sir Paul McCartney, knighted 20 years ago, who now becomes a companion of honour – an honour created in 1917 that can have no more than 65 members, so vacancies only arise on the death of a holder – along with the author JK Rowling, the designer Sir Terence Conran, chef Delia Smith and the scientist Sir John Sulston, who is a pioneer of human genome mapping.
Half a century after the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – now being celebrated in a festival across their native Liverpool – McCartney was jubilant. He said: “I’m very happy about this huge honour, and with the news coming on my birthday weekend and Father’s Day, it makes it colossal!”
Rowling said she was “deeply proud and honoured”, and Smith said the honour belonged to all who had encouraged her career “from day one”. Conran’s office said he was so excited about the honour they had great difficulty persuading him to keep quiet about it until the announcement.
The singers Ed Sheeran, who recently saw all 16 tracks from his new album take over the Top 20 chart, and Emeli Sandé, who sang in both the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2012 Olympics, are both awarded MBEs.
The honours committee said that Prime Minister Theresa May had elected not to offer any opinion on the list this year, because of the general election. Instead it was simply forwarded through her office to the Queen.
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Well done all.
Most of the honours handed out go to normal people, these are just the most famous faces. Other Commonwealth realms have their own Queen's Birthday Honours but this is just the British list.
Thoughts?
- Knighthoods and Damehoods awarded to famous faces including Billy Connolly and Julie Walters
- JK Rowling, , Delia Smith and Sir Paul MacCartney to receive a Companion of Honour
- Ed Sheernan and Emeli Sande to receive Order's of the British Empire (MBEs)
875828152643317766
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/billy-queens-birthday-honours-list-billy-connolly-jk-rowling-paul-mccartney-delia-smith
Arise Sir Billy Connolly: the famously foul-mouthed and anarchic comedian Billy Connolly, whose 75th year has already been marked with towering gable-end mural portraits in his native Glasgow, has been knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours list.
Connolly has in the past been teased and even heckled for his friendship with members of the royal family, including Prince Charles, but once said: “I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.”
The comedian and actor is honoured for his services to entertainment and charity, and his knighthood will join a list of other awards he has earned over his career.
Joining Connolly on the honours list are Sir Paul McCartney, knighted 20 years ago, who now becomes a companion of honour – an honour created in 1917 that can have no more than 65 members, so vacancies only arise on the death of a holder – along with the author JK Rowling, the designer Sir Terence Conran, chef Delia Smith and the scientist Sir John Sulston, who is a pioneer of human genome mapping.
Half a century after the release of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – now being celebrated in a festival across their native Liverpool – McCartney was jubilant. He said: “I’m very happy about this huge honour, and with the news coming on my birthday weekend and Father’s Day, it makes it colossal!”
Rowling said she was “deeply proud and honoured”, and Smith said the honour belonged to all who had encouraged her career “from day one”. Conran’s office said he was so excited about the honour they had great difficulty persuading him to keep quiet about it until the announcement.
The singers Ed Sheeran, who recently saw all 16 tracks from his new album take over the Top 20 chart, and Emeli Sandé, who sang in both the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2012 Olympics, are both awarded MBEs.
The honours committee said that Prime Minister Theresa May had elected not to offer any opinion on the list this year, because of the general election. Instead it was simply forwarded through her office to the Queen.
875830020694056960
875830408562266113
875830934842613760
875831959850823688
875832563771879424
Well done all.
Most of the honours handed out go to normal people, these are just the most famous faces. Other Commonwealth realms have their own Queen's Birthday Honours but this is just the British list.
Thoughts?